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Fragment of floral wallpaper border. Large peach flowers and smaller yellow flowers with foliage against upper band of yellow (on olive ground) and lower band of red with yellow half-circle and diamond pattern along upper and lower edges. Red stripe runs along upper border. Roller-printed in red, two yellows, two peaches, white, brown, and two greens on olive ground.
wallpapers
borders (ornament areas)
paper (fiber product)
floral patterns
Wallpaper
"Caswell house / Bolton built 1775" (handwritten)
Waterhouse, Dorothy S.
Original To Caswell House (Bolton, MA),
Unknown
United States
6 1/4 x 25 1/4 (HxW) (inches)
Gift of Bernard Scott
2001.281.918
Bolton (Worcester county, Massachusetts)
Probably United States
Machine Printed
unused
Olive
Original
Machine Made
Border
Paper
Flowers
foliage
diamond
Stripes
Floral
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