Mark French Antiques
Classic quilt in the Wild Goose Chase or Flying Geese design.
The earliest publication I've been able to find is the Ladies' Art Company,
which called the pattern Wild Goose Chase in their end-of-the-19th-century catalog.
They seem to have the proportions wrong.
Something I echoed in BlockBase & The Encyclopedia of Pieced Quilt Patterns.
The triangle should be a right angle HST.
Like this one attributed to Abba May Alcott in the collection of Orchard House in Massachusetts.
Date-inscribed 1847
The earliest date-inscribed example in the files is this one associated with Samuel B Cleaver in the
Brooklyn Museum's Collection. Dawn at Collector With a Needle took a detail shot a few years ago when it was on display.
Possibly from the Cleaver family who lived in this house Linden Hall in Port Penn, Delaware
Massachusetts Project & the Quilt Index
The files have several examples from about 1840 with the strips offering a good place to recycle some old chintz curtains perhaps.
This one may be a little earlier---1830s?
Garth Auctioneers
Rhode Island Project
Collection of the Babcock Smith House
International Quilt Museum
Or some samples.
Connecticut Project---that's a stripe in the alternate plain strip.
UPDATE:
Beth Donaldson of the Quilt Index suggested this one from
Merry Silber's collection be included. Purple perfection.
https://quiltindex.org//view/?type=fullrec&kid=12-8-1365
Observation indicates the pattern originated
about 1840 with the new abundance of cotton prints, favored by New Englanders.
Mid-20th-century
The design became a national pattern
With variations
Triple Strips
Another early one from Indiana University's Museum
With the Prussian blue prints so popular in the 1840's & '50s.
Connecticut Project
About 1900
South Carolina project, attributed to Hattie Jones Sutton
of Georgia, late 19th century
And then there are variations within the geese...
Hepzibah Prentice, Genesee County, New York
Mid - 19th
Maybe 1850-1875
New York project
1880-1920?
I suppose anything that makes a right triangle could be a goose.
And then I remembered I'd made this reproduction quilt years ago.