Brown Goose/Gray Goose

 

Looks like a Pennsylvania quilt---

color on color with no neutral,

pink, green and blue.

The pattern is a three-patch

one of the smaller categories in my Encyclopedia of Pieced Quilt Patterns.

This may be the same quilt---different exposure

or after washing and fading.

The block could be constructed as a Nine Patch

but no, there was a fashion for this three-patch.

Fewer seams, but Y seams.

Y?

#3220 in the Encyclopedia of Pieced Quilt Patterns

Which tells us the oldest published version is about 1900

in the Clara Stone booklet called Old Maid's Puzzle #2.

Ruth Finley in her 1929 gave it several names, Gray Goose, Brown Goose (depending on the color)

Devil's Claws and Double Z.

A few years later the Nancy Cabot column in

the Chicago Tribune called it Old Gray Goose

This example---a Brown Goose, I assume---

is from Julie Silber's inventory. 

Date: Perhaps 1880-1900

The Quilt Index shows a few that seem to pre-date the Clara Stone pattern.

Some of the fabrics in the blocks look pre Civil-War

in this one the New Jersey project recorded as

originating in a boarding house in Atlantic Highlands

run by Mary Crane Noble.

Unknown origins from the Massachusetts project

and the Quilt Index.

UPDATE:

Laura Lane sent this one from the collection of the New England Quilt Museum.

The center features a U.S. Grant Presidential campaign bandana (ca. 1868.)