Vince

The Cooper-Hewitt has a major league wallpaper reference collection.  You may want to call uptown for guidence on identification, removal, re-poe-duction, etc..

Mitch

Vincent Lepre wrote:

>      speaking of wallpaper, while removing the laylight from the E A Poe House today I discovered what may be original flocked paper in reasonable shape (for being 160 yrs old & under much abusive circumstance). Is there anybody who knows what they are looking at & can come to have a look? soon. The building will be gone in 10 days.
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> I intend on saving a section of the wall. I would like to be able to tell them what they have in the hope that they will reproduce it in the Poe reading room that will be part of the new structure.
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> Vince Lepre

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