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Fragment of a display sample of blue floral wallpaper with attached gold flocked border from Middleboro, Massachusetts. Sidewall paper is block-printed with a large-scale floral pattern in blue and metallic gold on polished light blue ground. The border, affixed at the top of the sidewall fragment, is printed with multiple stripes of metallic gold and tan and brown flocking.
wallpapers
paper (fiber product)
flocking
floral patterns
stripes
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
16 x 20 1/4 (HxW) (inches)
Gift of Bernard Scott
2001.281.1106
Middleboro (Plymouth County, Massachusetts)
Title Wallpaper Accession Number 2001.281.1105
Block Printed
Display sample
Blue
Original
Machine Made
Sidewall/Fill
Paper
Stylized flowers
Floral
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