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  • Ceiling Paper (USA), 1890

    Fine network formed by delicate geometrical scrolls embellished with small floral ropes and flower clusters. Printed in gold, silver, pink, green, white on pale blue ground.

  • Ceiling Paper (USA), ca. 1888

    Twisting acanthus octagonal framework centered with leafy forms interlock in all-over pattern.

  • Ceiling Paper (USA), 1900–1915

    Diagonal rows of scroll-enframed figures of various shapes. A near geometrical feeling results. Figures are not large. The most elaborate motif has leafy forms in pink and silver.

  • Ceiling Paper (USA), 1887–95

    A series of approximately circular figures, the largest of which has scrolled frame with red center motifs. Printed in gold, white and red on dull yellow embossed ground.

  • Ceiling Paper (USA), 1885–89

    Bold leafy scrolls with small pink roses alternate in checkered fashion with delicate ropes of small flowers forming eight-pointed star centered with small flower and bud. Printed on pink ground.

  • Bank Note, February 13, 1861

    Horizontal rectangle. Bank note, five dollars, Allegheny County Banck, Cumberland, Maryland, number 982. Portrait of a young girl, upper left; coal miners, lower right.

  • Bank Note, February 17, 1864

    Horizontal rectangle. Bank note, five dollars, The Confederate States of America, Richmond, number 93050. Large building at top; medallion portrait of a man, lower right.

  • Bank Note, September 1875

    Horizontal rectangle. Bank note for vingt cinq centimes, La Banque Nationale d’Haiti number 15656. Medallion portrait of an officer, left; trophy of cannons, flags, an anchor, and palm tree, right.

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