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Rolled fragment of red flocked wallpaper from Middleboro, Massachusetts. Fragment is the center of pattern only. Large-scale foliate damask roller-printed in red flocking, flocking overprinted in dark red, on light cream polished ground.
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.)
Waterhouse, Dorothy S.
Unknown
37 x 10 (HxW) (inches)
Gift of Bernard Scott
2001.281.1104
Middleboro (Plymouth County, Massachusetts)
Machine Printed
Flocked
Unused
Cream
Original
Machine Made
Sidewall/Fill
Paper
Foliate scroll
Damask
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