French Fabric Sample Book, 19th century
Enclosing printed samples on fine cottons in primarily naturalistic designs with stripes and checks
35cm by 54cm by 4.5cm
66 double sided pages, the samples are varying in size, each design bears a sticker with a handwritten number, approximately 397 samples and 25% missing
In a green fabric mounted ledger, spine missing, handwritten in blue crayon to the first page 64 planches *vubles, towards the back it has handwritten titles to some of the pages including Printemps 1863, Freres Rieeblin, Huguesin Scharmter & Conisteau, Dulfuss Hieg & Cie etc
French Sample Book, dated 1916-18
Enclosing cotton, brushed cotton, crepe, linen and silks
49cm by 35cm by 8.5cm
98 double sided pages, samples vary in size, approximately 747 samples and 17% are missing, 7 blank pages
In a green fabric mounted ledger, painted to the spine in white 1914 1915 1916 Commandes
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