Wallpaper
- Object Name:
- Wallpaper
- Object ID:
- 1983.002.24.5
- Place of Origin:
- England
- Description:
- Wallpaper, partial roll, one of six with same pattern. Striped design. Narrow stripes with small polychrome repeating parrot and foliage design alternate with narrower dotted gray stripes on a gray dotted ground. Pattern repeat ~4" in heighth. Horizontal pattern repeat 5.25". Three complete repeats across paper. Four columns of polychrome birds and flowers and four columns of plain, geometrical design. Polychrome patterns repeats shifted two inches upwards from one to next. Border stamped "ENGLISH MADE RD NO 688461", with trade mark. Icon of crown between word "trade" and "mark". Also, segment of shield on its side between "ENGLISH MADE" and the trademark. All letters san-serif. A couple tones of test strips below RD number and "ENGLISH MADE" with dot between them. On opposite side, plain border ~0.35" wide, containing test stripes with a dot in center and one can pick up yellow, black, brown, green in stripes.
- Material:
- Paper
- Dimensions:
- W-22 inches Weight-2.1 oz
- Provenance:
- Marked on back of sample (in accession folder), "George's Room / Dining Room / Chamber # 1".
One of 19 partial rolls of wallpaper from Ffrost Homestead, Durham, NH. - Credit Line:
- Gift of George F. Sawyer and Charles H. Sawyer
- Subjects:
- Wallpaper
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