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Roll of unused Japanese Leather wallpaper from Boston retailer A.H. Davenport. Embossed paper pattern of flowers and strapwork. Stenciled in red with gold ground. Japanese characters stamped in left selvedge.
wallpapers
paper (fiber product)
Wallpaper
Waterhouse, Dorothy S.
A.H. Davenport (Retailer)
Probably Rottman & Co. (Importer)
Japan
36 1/4 (W) (inches)
Gift of Bernard Scott
2001.281.122
See also "Wallpapers in the Stock of A. H. Davenport and Company" on pages 239-240.
Boston (Suffolk county, Massachusetts)
Stenciled
unused
Gold
Original
Machine Made
Sidewall/Fill
Embossed
Japanese Leather
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