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Unused sample. Saint George and Saint Patrick in gold on horseback each holding a banner both within scrolled frames with a dark red flocked background, scrolling flocked vines of clovers and thistles in between. Block-printed in gold, flocked in dark red on a red ground.
wallpapers
fragments
WALLPAPER
Selvedge: 307952 - Rec - 307953"
Reverse: "SLATER MEMORIAL MUSEUM / NORWICH, CONN. / 1890" [in pencil] "39741. 36 yard" (Printed, stamp and written)
National
3241
Crane, Walter, 1845-1915 (Designer)
Jeffrey & Co (Manufacturer)
London, England (origin); Norwich, CT (use)
28 1/2 in x 22 1/4 in (HxW) (inches)
Gift of the Slater Memorial Museum
2008.6.35
Illustrated in "Wallpapers an International History and Illustrated Survey," p. 310, fig. 873.
Title 2008.6.99 Accession Number 2008.6.1
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