Agate house paints.
A colour card issued by the F. O. Pierce Co. in 1910 to show its Agate house paints, a trade publication for painters and buyers of paint. The pictures are flat swatch strips in numbered rows of greens, greys, browns, reds, and yellows, each labelled with a shade name such as pea green, french grey, or russet. A designer could use these as a historical palette of muted, early twentieth-century house colours.
