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Two unused wallpaper fragments with diaper pattern from Jaffrey, New Hampshire. Intersecting gold diagonal lines form a diamond pattern. The diamonds each frame a gold cross. There is a small black diamond with a quatrefoil figure at each intersection of the gold diagonal lines in the pattern. Paper is roller-printed in metallic gold and black on beige ground.
wallpapers
paper (fiber product)
metallic pigment
diaper patterns
Wallpaper
"Jaffrey --- Torrey ? / Diapered -- Gold and black" (handwritten)
"Gold & Black / on white" (handwritten)
Waterhouse, Dorothy S.
Unknown
36 3/4 x 10 3/4 (HxW) (inches)
Gift of Bernard Scott
2001.281.536AB
Machine Printed
unused
Beige
Original
Machine Made
Sidewall/Fill
Paper
Diamonds
Quatrefoil
Cross
Diaper Pattern
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