Jan 29, 2019 - Sale 2497

Sale 2497 - Lot 81

Price Realized: $ 250
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 300 - $ 400
(JAPANESE FABRIC SAMPLES / FUROSHIKI.) Aikoko-go. 33 full-page color plates and a fabric sample sheet with 12 swatches of silk and cotton; one leaf of eight variants of kanji fonts. Oblong small folio, publisher's silver- and gold-stamped decorative boards with metal clasps, light blistering, else quite clean. Tokyo: Gunki-jirishi Furoshiki Hatsubaimot, late 1930s-early 40s

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A nice Furoshiki (Japanese square wrapping cloth) sample book of patriotic patterns and techniques from basic to more colorful and complicated Yuzen dying and shima stripes.