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The Queen's Crown
This page is being used to collect information about the history of the paperfolding design known as the Queen's Crown. Please contact me if you know any of this information is incorrect or if you have any other information that should be added. Thank you.

This fesign is a variation of the King's Crown.

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1882

As far as I know this design first appears in Part Two of 'The Kindergarten Guide' by Maria Kraus Boelte and John Kraus, which was published in by E. Steiger and Company in New York, probably in 1882.

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The design also appears:

1893

As 'Boy's Hat' in 'Paper and Scissors in the Schoolroom' by Emily Weaver, which was published by Milton Bradley Company in Springfield, Massachusetts in 1893.

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1895

In a sample book of Froebelian paperfolds and papercuts etc made by by Laura B Thompson in 1895.

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