Double Wedding Ring, mid 20th century See yesterday's post on the earliest dated DWR quilt. https://barbarabrackman.blogspot.com/2017/12/dwr-1-oldest-double-wedding-ring.html Another Question: What is the difference between a Wedding Ring and a Pickle Dish? Pickle Dish, about 1910 We sticklers for pattern accuracy will tell you right away. Pickle Dish has pointed triangles in the arcs (3 sided-shape), Pickle Dish From a Tennessee auction Wedding Ring has a 4-sided shape. Wedding Ring Those sorta rectangles can be skinny and long or short and squat. Depends on the number of pieces per arc. From Ann Wasserman's collection---2 sets of arcs! A Pickledish It doesn't matter what's in the squares between the arcs---it's the shape in the arc that seems to define them. Hovering on the edge between the definitions, but the shapes are 4-sided. I'm sticking with Wedding Ring. Wedding Ring Four patches usually fill that space between the arcs in Wedding Rings, #303 in BlockBase Pickle Dishes tend to have more variety in the space between the arcs. Here's a mid-20th century top with a four patch from eBay last month. One square in the space A square in a square The Pickle Dish pattern with triangles is BlockBase #304 & 305. I counted the number of triangles when I gave these numbers in my Encyclopedia of Pieced Quilt Patterns, but that was silly. There is too much variation to worry about how many triangles in an arc. A late 19th-century example that once was in Margaret Cavigga's collection. She thought it was from Pennsylvania. From the Wyoming Project & the Quilt Index Pickle Dish It's hard to believe blues could fade like this but they did. Indigo in a few spots, synthetic blue dyes in most of it. From the Arizona Project & the Quilt Index. Collection of the Pinal County Historical Society. Wedding Ring I could go on and I think I will. Tomorrow.