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04-030. Unknown
Tablecloth
Simtex
USA, 1950
50 x 65"
Spun rayon & cotton
Unsigned

While I can be fairly certain this cloth is by Simtex, attributing cloths to Russel Wright is proving to be difficult. I've seen this same design attributed as such, but have serious doubts as to the accuracy of those assertions.

I first saw this cloth about a week ago, and I passed it up. It was late in the day and I wasn’t thinking when I saw it on the rack. I have vague recollections that it wasn’t marked with a price, so maybe that's why I didn’t purchase it at the time. I'll never know for sure, because my memory of the find is so incredibly vague. So vague, in fact, that until I re-found the cloth today I was certain the original discovery was part of a dream. A lucid dream, but a dream nonetheless.

Fortunately, it really happened.

Found on June 11, 2004 in Brooklyn Center, MN.

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