Dec 13, 2001 - Sale 1920

Sale 1920 - Lot 212

Price Realized: $ 431
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 500 - $ 750
(COSTUME--FABRIC SAMPLE BOOK.) Fine fabric sample book containing approximately 1500 mounted examples of turn-of-the-century fabric designs,<> apparently assembled in Germany. Folio, cloth-backed boards, worn; some samples coming loose. Germany, circa 1890-91

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First few pages of the sample book are headed in holograph "Herbst & Winter 1890." The bookbinder's label is also German. Virtually all of the samples are for elegant and expensive fabrics of silk.<