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Partial roll of embossed wallpaper from Boston retailer A. H. Davenport. Large scale ogee fretwork with stylized acanthus leaf. Gold ground with design elements stenciled in copper, red, and dark brown.
wallpapers
embossed wall coverings
paper (fiber product)
embossed wall coverings
Wallpaper
"$5.00 per Roll / $5.00" (handwritten)
"70858M / Ahl(?)" (pattern number? Word or letters undetermined.)
Waterhouse, Dorothy S.
A.H. Davenport (Retailer)
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
27 x 20 (HxW) (inches)
Gift of Bernard Scott
2001.281.129
Boston (Suffolk county, Massachusetts)
Stenciled
Gold
Original
Machine Made
Sidewall/Fill
Embossed
Paper
ogee
acanthus leaf
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