120 Colours on Loose Cotton, Late 19th C. Kuttroff, Pickhardt & Co.NYC Salesman Sample folk art picture frame It really did take me

It really did take me a mirror to decipher the backwards writing on this old wooden t-square

And as a pretty dramatic hook

due to the specific pinched forms in addition to the glazes

4 3/4" x 3 7/8" x 1"

120 Colours on Loose Cotton, Late 19th C. Kuttroff, Pickhardt & Co.NYC Salesman Sample folk art picture frame It really did take meI 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