The Diamond Dyes 45 Color Sample Swatch Card, Wells, Richardson & Co Vermont, c. 1910s Les Souverains Both show age and wear

Both show age and wear

though this is even folkier and more naive

to its attached wooden snout detailed with red nose holes and mouth

or “dark-blue impression” — was invented around 1842 by the British astronomer and chemist John Frederick Herschel (1792–1871)

especially) and a gasoline can

The Diamond Dyes 45 Color Sample Swatch Card, Wells, Richardson & Co Vermont, c. 1910s Les Souverains Both show age and wearJust so pretty, I can't resist these when I come across them, which is pretty rarely. Forty five dyed fabric swatches, some cotton and some wool it appears, with excellent names under each for other colors each dye could be used to make: fawn, peacock, canary, sandal, cerise, prune, etc. Plus a great little pointing hand at bottom left and "directions for odd colors" on reverse. Early 20th century, and I think very frame worthy, though made with a