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A page torn from a "Peerless" Wallpaper sample book. Pattern number 4544, named "The Marguerite." Pink and tan floral stripe wallpaper roller-printed in two pinks, red, two greens, mustard yellow and yellow on a liquid mica ground. Paper is lightly embossed with a ribbed texture.
wallpapers
trade catalogs
sample books
paper (fiber product)
embossed wall coverings
mica (white pigment)
stripes
Wallpaper
The Marguerite
4544
Oldham, Esther
Waterhouse, Dorothy S.
Gledhill Wallpaper Company (1880-1920) (Manufacturer)
United States
14 x 18 1/8 (HxW) (inches)
Gift of Bernard Scott
2001.281.973.5
Wellesley (Norfolk county, Massachusetts)
United States
Title Wallpaper Sample Accession Number 2001.281.973.9
Machine Printed
unused
Original
Machine Made
Sidewall/Fill
Paper
Flowers
vines
floral swags
c-scrolls
beads
stripes
Floral Stripe
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