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Towel: Country Auction U286Description
This design is undocumented. It carries the name of a c.1959 framed print and may have been a renamed and reissued Wert towel/wallhanging design. It may also have been produced from artwork created by a freelance artist for Country Prints after Wert’s death in January 1966.
This is one of over sixty designs sold by Country Prints to Stevens Linen Associates of Dudley, Massachusetts, in January 1969. From that point onward, the designs were produced by Stevens with all reference to Robert Darr Wert and Country Prints removed. Many of these designs continued to be produced by Stevens throughout the 1970’s and some into the 1980’s.
In a memo from Fritz Kaufhold (Country Prints’ business manager) to Bob MacKay (Stonelea Mills/Stevens Linen Associates) dated February 12, 1969, Fritz notes this design is was an average seller at the time.