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  • Sidewall (Sweden), ca. 1940

    Design of overlapping fern leaves in silver and white on gray ground.

  • 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…

  • Sidewall (Sweden), ca. 1950

    Horizontal rows of white and red squares in outline, overlapping in such a way as to give an interlocked appearance. Small figures on blue-gray ground.

  • Sidewall (Sweden), 1949–50

    Freely drawn white squares and dark green horizontal lines in nine vertical drop-repeating columns, on pale green ground.

  • Sidewall (Sweden), ca. 1948–50

    Horizontal rows of geometrical, non-representational figures outlined in dark brown. Small figures, on blue-gray ground.

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • Beaker (Sweden), 1760

    Tall flaring body with punched lambrequin motif above engraved shell and scroll band and initials E.H.S. Wavy relief band at top and bottom. Flaring gadrooned foot, with traces of gilding.…

  • Sample Book, Sculptured Wallcovering, 1951

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

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