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Rolled fragment of green flocked wallpaper from Middleboro, Massachusetts. Floral damask pattern with large-scale, stylized flower framed by serpentine foliate scroll and foliate vine. Roller-printed in metallic silver and green flocking on yellow ground with mica flakes.
wallpapers
paper (fiber product)
flocking
damask
Wallpaper
"Elaborate Flocks and Golds from Middleboro, Mass. (Delano-) Decorators papers of the 1880-1910 era" (Found with four other wallpaper fragments in a paper bag. Note written on 2001.281.1105)
"[text missing] Priory H.[text missing]" (printed)
"Green flock / 1870" (handwritten)
Priory
Waterhouse, Dorothy S.
H. Scott Richmond & Co. (Manufacturer)
Mott, Henry H. (Designer)
England
37 x 22 (HxW) (inches)
Gift of Bernard Scott
2001.281.1103
Middleboro (Plymouth County, Massachusetts)
England (United Kingdom) [country]
Title Wallpaper Accession Number 1985.777
Machine Printed
Flocked
Unused
Yellow
Original
Machine Made
Sidewall/Fill
Paper
Stylized flower
foliate scroll
Vine
Damask
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