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Wallpaper fragment with attached border. Paper (A) has pattern of alternating blue and white diamonds with opposite color quatrefoil flower in the center of each. White pinstripe background. Printed in blue and white on ungrounded paper. Top edge of paper is decorated with a blue ingrain border (B). The border has no pattern.
wallpapers
paper (fiber product)
Wallpaper
"The border on this smaple was transferred from another on a dirtier sheet of the same/ 6 Aug. 1924"
(handwritten)
471
Unknown
United States
2 7/16 x 11 5/8 (HxW) (inches)
Gift of Mrs. John W. Davis
1924.561AB
United States
Title Accession Number 1924.561.1
Machine Printed
Wall Fragment
Ungrounded
Original
Machine Made
Sidewall/Fill
Paper
diamond
quatrefoil
pinstripe
Diaper Pattern
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