Russell Bookcrafts Hitchin, Vintage Paper/Dollhouse Wallpaper Samples antique wooden frame complete with brown felt pads

complete with brown felt pads on the bottom

Inside is soft stuffing

a mish mash of square and round windows

with light cracking of the paint visible on arms and white belly and a few scuff marks here and there

Russell Bookcrafts Hitchin, Vintage Paper/Dollhouse Wallpaper Samples antique wooden frame complete with brown felt padsI purchased these little booklets of paper samples along with a few stray wallpaper samples from a seller in Maine who often has great dollhouse furniture, so am thinking they were likely used by someone for selecting paper to use in a dollhouse. A little research reveals that Russell Bookcrafts Hitchin was located in Bedfordshire, England, and published numbers books and catalogues related to all aspects of bookbinding, looks like from about 1950