Sale 9662
London, South Kensington
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8 July 2003
Price realised
GBP 705
Estimate
A set of six fabric swatch books, containing a variety of wools including wool flannels, crêpes and tweeds of various textures rendered in a wide variety of plaids, stripes and some abstract patterns, with hand written titles and numbers, all cloth bound, variously labelled on the spine HIVER 1, HIVER 1, ETE 1922, HIVER 1 and ETE 1926 (6)
Provenance
Sotheby's, 24 September 1998, lot 216
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