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Unused Wallpaper Sample

Collection Type

  • Wallpaper

Date

1930-1950

GUSN

GUSN-103529

Description

Unused sample. Imitating toile fabric with five different repeating landscape scenes with figures including a man by his horse, a man riding a horse, a man walking, a man on a horse talking to a woman, and a stag lying beneath a tree. Printed in red on a natural ground.

Details

Descriptive Terms

wallpapers
WALLPAPER

Inscription

Selvedge Right: "JOIN HERE / B.S. & P. / MADE IN U.S.A. / NAMALAC PROCESS / Light Resisting / JOIN HERE / B.S. & P. / MADE IN U.S.A. / NAMALAC PROCESS / Light"
Selvedge Left: "JOIN HERE / JOIN HERE"
Reverse: [in pencil] "1939-42-1" "SLATER MEMORIAL MUSEUM / NORWICH, CONN. / 270.3" [repeats three times] "KAN-WASH & Lite-Resisting / SIDEWALL No. 3392 CA / 4 BAND BORDER NO. 9393 CA" (Printed, stamp and written)

Pattern

3392

Additional Identification Number

3257

Maker

Becker, Smith & Page, Inc. (Manufacturer)

Location of Origin

USA (origin); Norwich, CT (use)

Dimensions

29 1/2 in x 19 1/2 in (HxW) (inches)

Credit Line

Gift of the Slater Memorial Museum

Accession Number

2008.6.51

Related Items

Title 2008.6.99 Accession Number 2008.6.1

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