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  • Belt (Russia), late 19th century

    Ribbon belt in silver cloth with black silk strips and figures. Six convex buttons and two-part buckle ornamented in scrolling stem and leaf design and the word “Kavkaz” (Caucasus) in…

  • Imitation Leather (USA), 1908–10

    Bisymmetrical leaf and plant forms embossed in gold on glazed brown ground.

  • Imitation Leather (USA), 1908–10

    Textured green paper imitating embossed leather. Darker brown pigment rubbed into crevices.

  • Imitation Leather (USA), 1908–10

    Four brown and green stripes with stylized decoration on brown glazed crackled ground. Resembles painted leather.

  • Belt, ca. 1930

    Belt patterned with thin stripes in shades of mauve and pink predominantly, also black, yellow, orange, and green. Both ends have warp fringes. Weft ribbing from heavy cerise wefts.

  • Belt, early 20th century

    Belt with one surface of dark blue wool fancy twill with echelons forming large diamonds. The reverse side, white cotton cloth with large diamonds outlined with the dark blue wool…

  • Imitation Leather (Japan), ca. 1885

    Diaper of tiny close-set beads.

  • Imitation Leather (Japan), ca. 1885

    Close-set diaper of very small circles. Resembles lizard skin in the over-all apearance. Painted black.

  • Imitation Leather (Japan), ca. 1885

    Vertical rectangle. Approximately twenty emblems of different shapes arranged at random. Several of the motifs occur twice with either coloring or direction changed. Geometrical, foliate and mask designs are included.…

  • Imitation Leather (Japan), ca. 1885

    Repeating design made up of adjoining small triangles, some filled in with solid color, the others ornamented with small geometrical figures and flower designs. Dark brown and gray on yellowish…

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