Cream to white-colored flour sack quilt. Fabric is muslin. Both top and bottom of quilt is pieced in segments and have patches where the fabric was repaired (possibly before the quilt was constructed). Top: on one short end are pink, yellow, and blue flowers with strips of green and blue petals, in a bunting shape, connecting the flowers. The main area of the quilt is divided by green strips into nine sections. There are pink flowers with blue petals on four of the green strips. The center section has a green ring, interrupted by blue and pink flowers and blue petals. In two sections, on either side of the center, is a butterfly with whitish-blue wings. At the end opposite the bunting flowers are two blue flowers.
Franklin "Frank" Bradford Cypher was born in 1875 in Pennsylvania and married Grace E. Hull (b. 1877) in Denver in 1902. Frank worked as a postal carrier in Denver, being promoted to postal foreman by 1920, while Grace was a homemaker. They had no children. This collection is a snapshot of their daily lives: how they groomed and dressed themselves for their days, Frank's tools of his trade as a carrier and then foreman, and some mementos of his retirement from the postal service. Grace passed away in 1944 and Frank followed in 1950.