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Doll Furniture with Beautiful Rugs. One Room with Rug.Paper Furniture
192017300Chicago: Cut Craft Cut Outs American Colortype Co. ca. 1920 First edition. This is one in a series of four "One Room" kits the other rooms shown on the envelope are a dining room bedroom and kitchen. . Buff paper envelope printed in color with an illustration advertising the four possible "One Room" model home scenes. . All richly printed in color. The larger leaf is a rug and the two smaller leaves are printed with furniture pieces to be cut out and assembled into a living room scene. The rug and some of the furniture items are designed in a pseudo-"oriental" style. Wear and toning to edges of envelope creases fragile. The leaves within are clean and bright. A very good copy of a rare and fragile item. Activity kits like the present item were popular educational tools because they inspired children's creativity and helped them practice fine motor skills and techniques that transferred to art lessons like cutting with scissors and folding paper. The present kit is additionally interesting for its distinctly Arts and Crafts era design. The kit includes a model of a Stickley-style settee Tiffany-style lamps and a porcelain vase emblematic of "oriental" interior design trend of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Cut Craft Cut Outs, American Colortype Co.,
