Domestic paints ready for use.
A Building Technology Heritage Library paint catalogue from 1900, issued by the firm Longman & Martinez to show householders and trade buyers its ready-mixed domestic paints. The pictures are swatch plates: rectangles of colour printed beside numbered labels with names in English and Spanish, such as light green, lead colour and dark drab. A designer could take from them a set of muted, workaday greens, greys and near-blacks, with the bilingual labelling as a period touch for colour charts.
