120 Colours on Loose Cotton, Late 19th C. Kuttroff, Pickhardt & Co.NYC Salesman Sample wall-hanging homemade version

homemade version

perhaps a charicature of Decker himself

I believe it is Mexican

my favorite thing

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120 Colours on Loose Cotton, Late 19th C. Kuttroff, Pickhardt & Co.NYC Salesman Sample wall-hanging homemade versionI swooned when I found this one, at an antiques shop in Columbia PA, and can't find documentation of another like it out there anywhere. It was produced by Kuttroff, Pickhardt & Co., NYC, an early American dye company, started by the German immigrant Adolf Kuttroff to commercialize chemical dyes from the French firm A. Poirrier. In 1876, the company became the American seller of the Badische Anilin und Soda Fabrik (BASF) chemical company. (In 1925, it