20th Nov, 2020 10:30 GMT/BST

The Pattern Sale - Online auction

 
Lot 2072
 

2072

French Fabric Sample Book, early 19th century Enclosing printed cottons of floral, striped,...

French Fabric Sample Book, early 19th century
Enclosing printed cottons of floral, striped, checked, floral, abstract in yellows, pinks, reds, browns, blues, greens and purple, each page has a blue multi-striped frame separated into 10 windows, enclosing samples sized 9cm by 5.5cm
29cm by 40.5cm by 4cm
Comprising 49 single sided sample pages, 450 samples each bearing an oval label with a handwritten number, approximately 3% of the fabric samples are missing and some have been cut
In a green mottled paper and leather book, stamped to the front Rouleaux Liebach Harmann & Co, A Thann handwritten to the inside page Rouleaux 1821 a dans de M Jques Harmann Liebach 1857, page one handwritten with Commence l'impressionau rouleau en fevrier 1821, translated as 'start roller printing in 1821', several handwritten notations to the margins of the book overall

Sold for £3,500
Estimated at £500 - £700


 

. Scuffing and wear to the binding, and some of the samples have been cut.

 


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