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Fragment of uncut wallpaper border from Middleton, Massachusetts. Flocked floral pattern with floral molding stripe. Block-printed in three browns, two greens, metallic copper, metallic blue with brown flocking on ochre ground. Paper is embossed with ribbed pattern (vertical in relation to pattern).
wallpapers
borders (ornament areas)
paper (fiber product)
block printing (relief printing process)
flocking
embossed wall coverings
metallic pigment
floral patterns
Wallpaper
"16 1/2 yrds / 16 1/2 / 16 yrds" (Dealer or retailer notation)
"Mrs. Goldsmith - Marblehead. From auction in NH." (handwritten)
"Good Victorian Stripe + border [circled] from Middleton Mass"
"Mrs. Goldsmith - Marblehead Mass - DAR"
"1227" (pattern number)
1227
Waterhouse, Dorothy S.
Unknown
22 1/2 x 21 1/8 (HxW) (inches)
Gift of Bernard Scott
2001.281.439
Title Wallpaper Accession Number 2001.281.437
Title Wallpaper Accession Number 2001.281.438
Block Printed
Flocked
unused
Ochre
Original
Machine Made
Border
Embossed
Paper
tulips
flowers
leaves
molding
Floral
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