Stearn's paint mfg. co's ready pure mixed paints.
A trade colour card issued by Stearn's Paint Mfg. Co. around 1900, offering ready-mixed paints to painters and house buyers as a numbered sample sheet. The single picture is a grid of rectangular colour swatches, each labelled with a number, with a note at the bottom that outside and inside white and black are also available. A designer could use the grid as a ready reference for muted, earthy period palettes of olive, slate, ochre, maroon and sage.
