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The Australasian decorator & painter

Sepia drawing of a 19th-century frieze detail for decorators featuring poppies

An illustrated technical journal for decorators, painters, signwriters and paperhangers, published between 1905 and 1924. It includes designs for paintwork and wallpaper, with fold-out coloured stencils of friezes.