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Yellow and pink butterflies with black-tipped wings fly among loose sprays of flowers and grasses roller-printed in metallic gold and light blue, black, yellow, pink and gray on white ground. The paper is embossed with a horizontal rib texture.
wallpapers
paper (fiber product)
embossed wall coverings
metallic pigment
floral patterns
Wallpaper
"Mrs. Pearl Gallant / 27 E. Elm St. / Yarmouth Maine" (handwritten)
Waterhouse, Dorothy S.
Unknown
24 1/2 x 18 (HxW) (inches)
Gift of Bernard Scott
2001.281.614
Probably United States
Machine Printed
unused
White
Original
Machine Made
Sidewall/Fill
Embossed
Paper
Butterflies
Flowers
Grasses
Floral
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