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Three rectangular lengths of floral patterned polychrome printed wallpaper, with shaped lower edges bound with a paper binding. The valences are backed with brown paper and dated newsprint from 1780. (The patterns are of brightly colored prints: red, purple, blue, green and black vine-like sprigs of various flowers.) Probably English wallpaper. A & B are side pieces and C is an end piece.
wallpapers
bed valances
paper (fiber product)
Wallpaper
Original to Cogswell's Grant (Essex, Mass.),
1991.1267A,B,C
Unknown
11 x 76 1/2 (HxW) (inches)
Gift of Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little
1991.1267A-C
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