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Thibaut’s latest colorings in room mouldings. . . plate rails chair rails and wood mouldings Victorian sample window display featuring 21 ornate plaster-covered and brightly painted moulding samples with woodcut engravings and pricing advertisements on verso.
190054049New York & Brooklyn: Richard E. Thibaut Inc. 48-50 East 13th St.; 607-609 Fulton St. ca. 1900. Folio. 15.5 x 18 in. Printed text on recto & verso with 21 sample moulding pieces decorative & ornate plaster over wood painted with gilt highlights on most pieces sized from 1.25 x 4 in. up to 2 x 4 in. beautiful array of patterns each mounted w/ brads to thick card stock display board hole punched in upper margin woodcut engravings on verso minor chipping & wear to a couple samples 1 w/ very minor loss wear & bumping to corners minor tear to hole for hanging w/cord at upper margin old tidemark & soiling to fore-edges still an exceptional piece. First edition thus of this splendid sample advertising window display for ornate plaster decorated wooden mouldings for plate rails chair rails and wood mouldings in Victorian homes to be paired with the famed Thibaut wallpapers. These mouldings feature vivid paint colours emphasizing jewel tones such as greens blues reds burgundies and even pale pinks as well as white mouldings most of them elaborately decorated and with gilt paint highlights and could be purchased in 6 and 12 foot lengths. These ornamental mouldings often served to protect wallpapers from being rubbed and worn by furniture and artwork as well as accenting the beauty of the wallpaper designs. Thibaut 1857-1921 founded the famed wallpaper firm in New York in 1886 and also maintained stores in Brooklyn Boston and later New Jersey. At one time they were heralded as the world’s largest wallpaper company and would continue to be family owned through three generations before selling it to their employees and subsequently sold to RPM in 1976. Thibaut continues selling wallpapers fabrics fine furniture and is considered the oldest continuously operating wallpaper company in the United States. The 48-50 E. 13th Street address in New York begins appearing in newspaper advertisements and directories about 1894-1895. No copies located in Worldcat; See: History of Thibaut Thibaut Wallpaper & Fabrics. Richard E. Thibaut, Inc., 48-50 East 13th St.; 607-609 Fulton St., unknown
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