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Thank you JCQuilts! I delightedly pulled out my copy of 101 Patchwork Patterns by Ruby McKim (the very first quilt book I ever bought!) and there it is. I thought this was going to give me the earliest possible date for this quilt as well since she first published this book in 1931 but Weathervane is not among her original patterns. She names it as an old pattern, "This patchwork pattern is called the Weathervane, and dates back to a time when great-grandmother used that commodity to "calc'late a change," instead of listening to a scientific forecast on the radio. But her pattern, the weathervane, is one of the loveliest of our old time quilt designs." Thank you for telling me the name of the patch and a source of the pattern!