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[ 384LO'G ] Quilt Style: Patchwork, Pieced Repeat Block
Owner: Lynette O'Grady  -  Country/Place Created: USA -  Date: 1901 - 1920
Story of Quilt: "The quilt was made for my great aunt Lily Balmour (nee White). Lily was married to an American - Alma Balmour, who was an elder / Missionary in the Reorganised Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saint. She travelled with him for..."

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[ 473GW ] Quilt Style: Patchwork, Pieced Repeat Block
Owner: Glenda Wilkinson  -  Country/Place Created: USA -  Date: 1941 - 1970
Quilt History: "The quilt was made by a church ladies guild in North Carolina, USA about 1967 for Betty Wootton. It was sent to her when she was living in Seoul, South Korea where she was working with her husband for the Presbyterian Missionary..."

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[ 499AG ] Quilt Style: Patchwork, Mosaic, Rectangle
Owner: Anne Griffin  -  Country/Place Created: PAPUA NEW GUINEA -  Date: 1941 - 1970
Story of Quilt: "The quilt was made during the first half of 1949 by my mother, Norma Griffin, aged 24, at Saidor in New Guinea, which was Australian Mandated Territory at the time. My parents were both from Ballarat, Victoria, and had gone to New..."

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[ 1215EB ] Quilt Style: Pieced Animal skins, Native Fauna
Owner: Ellen Blunden  -  Country/Place Created: Australia. Central Australia -  Date: 1941 - 1970
Story of Quilt: "Much of the history of the Hermannsburg Mission is well known. It was the home of Albert Namatjira, and a collection of his paintings remain there. The Lutheran Mission no longer exists there. (I do not know when it formally ceased..."

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[ 1216EB ] Quilt Style: Pieced Animal skins, Native Fauna
Owner: Ellen Blunden  -  Country/Place Created: Australia. Central Australia -  Date: 1941 - 1970
Story of Quilt: "Much of the history of the Hermannsburg Mission is well known. It was the home of Albert Namatjira, and a collection of his paintings remain there. The Lutheran Mission no longer exists there. (I do not know when it formally ceased..."

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