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Partial roll (A) and five fragments (B-F) printed with square and triangular wallpaper medallions used to accent straight wallpaper borders. Central element in both the squares and triangles is a circle or semi-circle figure with radiating arms terminating in trefoil figures. Roller-printed in metallic gold, two browns and red flocking on brown ground. The flocking is overprinted in orange and black. "Shawmut 256" is printed in metallic gold on the face of the paper.
wallpapers
paper (fiber product)
flocking
medallions (ornament areas)
Wallpaper
"Shawmut / 256" (printed)
Shawmut
256
Waterhouse, Dorothy S.
Unknown
United States
5 3/4 (W) (inches)
Gift of Bernard Scott
2001.281.1015A-F
Probably United States
Machine Printed
Flocked
Unused
Brown
Original
Machine Made
Border
Paper
Quatrefoil
Trefoil
medallions
Circle
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