Prang's Outline Pictures with Directions for Coloring

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  Prang Craft Colors

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  One boxed collection of paints containing 5 jars of paint and two small mirrors. Four of the jars are labeled Prang Craft Colors, manufactured by the Prang Company, New York, and Chicago. Four (4) of the jars are Prang colors, labeled, individually, "Base Blue A", "Base Blue B", "Base Red" and "Yellow". The other jar of paint is from Waldcraft and is labeled "Reseda Green". The label on one of the Prang bottles reads: "Prang Craft-Colors. For staining basswood and all close grained woods, raffia, reeds, etc. May be used on drawing paper and cardboard with either brush or pen. Fast to light, non-running, non-inflammable; may be thinned with water and mixed to secure any shade. See circular for directions. The Prang Company, New York, Chicago."

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  Objects to Color or Paint

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  One painting and drawing book, copyright 1955, entitled Objects to Color or Paint, published by Platt & Munk Co. This book is 12 unnumbered pages in length and is comprise of outline images to paint. The front cover is a color image of an apple against a green background. "No. 068 B, Copr. MCMLV, The Platt & Munk Co., Inc., Made in U.S.A." is printed across the bottom of the front cover. The back cover contains the last image intended for coloring. Printed on the inside of the front cover are "Practical Instructions for Coloring With Paints or Crayons." There are 14 pages (including both sides of the back cover) of color and outline images for coloring. Some of them include a clock, a bed, socks, a dress and a television. None of the images have been colored. "25" (price) is written in ms. in the upper right-hand corner of the front cover.

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  The Prang Elementary Course in Art Instruction, Eastern Edition

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  One drawing book entitled The Prang Elementary Course in Art Instruction, Eastern Edition, published by The Prang Educational Company, Boston, New York and Chicago, copyright 1899. The subtitle reads: Description, Specimen Illustrations from different grades and Opinions of leading Supervisors and Teachers. This 40-page book is primarily a collection of written testimonials about the Prang drawing system. Pages 3-6 are devoted to an outline and explanation of the system and its various levels and courses, and the remaining pages are excerpts from letters of praise from art teachers in the U.S., illustrated with both images from the Prang instructional drawing books and samples of artwork created using the Prang courses. The first two pages are composed of illustrations. The front cover is illustrated in the upper left-hand corner with a small, rectangular image of three daffodils. On the inside of the front cover begins "European Opinions in Regard to the Prang Course", which continues onto the inside back cover and the back cover. "2- BDF as is" (price) written in ms. in the upper right-hand corner of the first page.

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  Tilton's Outline Design Cards, for Studies and Decorative Purposes, 12th Series

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  One set of painting cards entitled Tilton's Outline Design Cards, for Studies and Decorative Purposes, 12th Series, printed by S.W. Tilton & Co. Boston, 1880. Each card has a simple printed flower and the flower name. Four cards are represented from the original set of six--Buttercup, Forget-Me-Not, Bachelors Button, and Dandelion. All the cards are gilt-edged. An instructional booklet issued with the set contains two parts: 1) Directions for Mixing Colors, Their Values, &c.: For the use of Beginners, is included. This pamphlet was added to the Directions for Coloring Tilton's Outline Design Cards for Hand Painting in Water Colors, the latter part gives detailed instructions on painting the cards in each of the twelve series. For example, instructions for the card labeled "Buttercup": "Flowers, chrome thin shaded with thicker chrome, and in deepest shadows, grey (cobalt, crimson lake, chrome). Stamens left white, and afterwards washed over with chrome. Leaves and stems, green, (Prussian blue, chrome, and a little crimson lake), shaded with same darker." The instruction booklet lists the "Forget-Me-Not" card under the flower's Latin name: "Myosotis." The cards and the directions were enclosed in an envelope which bore the number of the series hand written, in pencil, in the lower left hand corner.

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  Prang Tempera Colors

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  One boxed set of paint tubes entitled Prang Tempera Colors: six two-inch tubes, manufactured by the American Crayon Co., Sandusky, Ohio and New York, ca. 1925. The paperboard box contains 6 small tubes of paint in white, green, blue, yellow, black, and red.

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  Prang Paper Colored Pencils

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  One boxed set of colored pencils entitled Prang Paper Colored Pencils, manufactured by The American Crayon Co., Sandusky, Ohio, ca. 1935. The set consists of 12 colored pencils within a paperboard box (all are present). The pencils are paper-wrapped; they are "sharpened" by unwrapping layers of paper. Slipped into the box is an informational sheet about the pencils.

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