The Eagle White Lead Co. Paint Transparencies

Cincinnati, Ohio: The Eagle-Picher Lead Co.. Leather slipcase or sleeve. Very Good. A compact house color kit. N.d., circa 1920. Twenty color cards which underlay three transparencies with house designs to provide the user with a better sense of how a particular color will look with the particular style of house. The houses on the transparencies are a mid-sized Dutch Colonial, a bungalow, and a rather grand Colonial Revival (with hints of Mediterranean style) house. We presume the set is complete, as the color cards are numbered 1 to 20 with none missing in this sequence, and everything fits snugly into the leather envelope or slipcase. There are several transparency sets listed on OCLC First Search, but those with more cards are a bit larger in size, meaning the cards are larger, or the one that might conceivably be the same, or similar, has fewer pieces. The palette on offer is of greens, browns and golds and are decidedly earthy and sober in character. These are not choices to rankle the suburban taste vigilantes, for sure. The cards and transparencies are each 7.5 by 10 cm and they fit into a faux alligator leather sleeve. Condition: slight darkening to the transparencies with age. A few minor stains on the color card backs which have the textual content.