Dutch boy white lead color guide for painters.
A 1927 colour guide issued by the National Lead Company, publisher and maker of Dutch Boy white lead, for painters choosing house paint shades. Its pages are vertical strips of numbered colour swatches, each a flat rectangle of paint shade with its number printed beside it, arranged in ordered sequences of yellows, greens, tans and browns. A designer could take from it a tidy system for presenting palettes as numbered swatch sets, with muted, earthy period hues ready for building a limited scheme.
