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Unused sanitary wallpaper fragments from Topsfield, Massachusetts. English made paper depicting scenes and characters from the stories of Charles Dickens. Engraved roller-print with oil colors on ungrounded paper.
wallpapers
paper (fiber product)
engraving (printing process)
sanitary papers (wallpaper)
Wallpaper
"Paper with Dickens characters / Circa 1870 / Given me by Mrs. Robt Hurly / Topsfield" (handwritten)
Waterhouse, Dorothy S.
After Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870 (Author)
20 3/4 x 7 1/2 (HxW) (inches)
Gift of Bernard Scott
2001.281.381A-D
1924 (Per registry number 705607 printed in selvedge.)
England (United Kingdom) [country]
England
Engraved
unused
Ungrounded
Original
Machine Made
Sidewall/Fill
Paper
literary characters
literary places
Sanitary
Novelty
Nursery
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