Prepared paints for household use.
A trade sample card from John Lucas & Co., a paint maker, issued in 1885 to show prepared household paints in their colours for customers choosing shades. The picture is a chevron layout of two rows of flat colour swatches, labelled along their edges, with names such as light green, chrome and bright red at the top and red lead and bright green yellow at the bottom. A designer might take its plain, period palette of muted olive, brown, slate and red for vintage packaging or utilitarian colour schemes.
