Printed cotton plain weave fabric sample; Matusch, Goldschmidt, & Co., Manchester, England; for the African market, in connection with Mombasa; Consular Collection. Printed pattern of alternating irregular stripes in light gray-blue, black, and brick red, with a border along the selvage of a diamond & trefoil design in black & brick red. Probablymeant for wrapped garments. Original glued paper label reads: Matusch, Goldschmidt (/) & Co. Ltd. (/) No. 21880 (/) (/) AAV (/) No. 68.
An envelope found with the Mombasa textile group reads: "Department of Commerce, Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce, Washington. 93881 (1917), Mombasa Textiles Brit. Manuf. CR 260 1917 FTO25764" (or FTO625764?) This is the Consular Report associated with this textile sample. At the time of this correspondence, Mombasa was in British East Africa.
Part of collection of samples acquired by US Consuls overseas between about 1898 and 1918, in the interests of promoting US trade and business opportunities; which was transferred by the Dept. of Commerce in the 1920s-30s.