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  • Sample Book (USA), 1948

    Contains forty contemporary designs by leading designers. The “Audubon Game Birds” is a photo-lithograph. Includes “Skeletons” by William Justema, “In Line” by Ilonka Karasz.

  • Sample Book (France), ca. 1750

    Folded paper with twelve samples in very bright colors mounted on thin board. Probably used for uniforms. Samples are mounted on paper which reads “LONDRINS SECONDS DE LA GRAVETTE MAY…

  • Sample Book, Dessins Nouveauté, 1926–27

    Selection of designs with the strong colors and contrasts of the mid-twenties with examples of large bold design and small figured patterns. Samples are bound in boards. Gilt lettering. The…

  • Earrings (India), late 19th century

    Pair of earrings. Turquoise matrix and silver.

  • Earrings (India), late 19th century

    Pair of earrings of gilt metal, filigree, the outer half circle form has suspended white glass pearls and beads in green and turquoise. Inner circle is set with pendants.

  • Earrings (USA), ca. 1850

    Pair of earrings of hairi-work woven into spherical and cylindrical forms, mounted in gold.

  • Earrings (Italy), ca. 1860

    “Florentine Mosaic” parure, set in gilt metal filigree and granule decoration surrounding circles (upper portion of earrings), and half-circles of porcelain or enamel. The parure is composed of: brooch; pendant…

  • Sample Book, Wallpaper by Denst and Soderlund, 1952–53

    Includes, with color alternates, the following wallpapers: Trees, Twine, Broken Ladder, Checks, Round, The River, Deep Water, Lakatoi, Dandelion, Chameleon, Intracte, Singora Sail, Talisman. The book is setup to show…

  • Sample Book, Sculptured Wallcovering, 1951

    Samples of wallpaper imitating brick walls, straw matting, stone walls, wood grain, etc., in three-dimensional plastic.

  • Sample Book (Japan), 1927

    Paper-bound book with tipped-in color plates with textile designs, textile samples and painting. Some text in Japanese. Translation of main heading: “Two Great current in Vogue, and Standardizing Colors for…

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