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Partial roll. Allover net design against an imitation marble field. Block printed in gray, black and white on sea-green ground.
wallpapers
wallpapers
laid paper
Wallpaper
Green Nett
Original To Rundlet-May House (Portsmouth, N.H.),
1564
Unknown
England
23 (W) (inches)
Gift of Ralph May
1971.2182A
"Wallpaper in New England," p. 113, fig. 24.3, plate 13.
1805-1807 (invoice dated 1807)
England (United Kingdom) [country]
Title "Gimp Border" border paper Accession Number 1971.2182B
Title "Peach Damask" wallpaper Accession Number 1971.2178
Title "Paris Flock" boder paper Accession Number 1971.2179
Title "Flock Border" border paper Accession Number 1971.2181
Block Printed
Unused
Green
Original
Handmade
Sidewall/Fill
Laid
Paper
net
marble
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