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Unused wallpaper fragment from Selick Hedge Matthews House, Bass River, Massachusetts. Floral gilt figure paper with roller-printed trailing vine background pattern in gray on white ground.
wallpapers
paper (fiber product)
embossed wall coverings
floral patterns
Wallpaper
"From the Selick Hedge Matthews Homestead / Bass River, Mass" (not Dorothy Waterhouse's handwriting)
"4" (circled)
Waterhouse, Dorothy S.
Original To Selick Hedge Matthew House,
Unknown
13 15/16 x 18 7/16 (HxW) (inches)
Gift of Bernard Scott
2001.281.288
Bass River (Barnstable county, Massachusetts) [river]
Machine Printed
Gilt
unused
White
Original
Machine Made
Sidewall/Fill
Embossed
Paper
Flowers
Sprigs
vine
Gilt Figure
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