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Unused wallpaper fragment. "Paris Flock Border" with a design of sprigs of two daisies, backed by grass line the border. Printed in two greys, white, blue and purple with black flock overprinted with orange on orange ground.
wallpapers
paper (fiber product)
Wallpaper
Paris Flock Border
Rundlet-May House (Portsmouth, N.H.), Parlor
776
Unknown
France
5 1/2 x 11 1/4 (HxW) (inches)
Gift of Ralph May
1965.141
Wallpaper in New England, plate 11, p. 106, fig. 24-c p. 114, p. 113-114
1805-1807 (Henry Bufford (paper hanger) Sept. 1809)
Possibly France
Title Accession Number 1971.2179b
Title Accession Number 1971.2178a
Block Printed
Flocked
Roll
Orange
Original
Handmade
Border
Laid
Paper
daisies with leaves
grass
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