Placemat, Plasticote Mats: Country Hearth 512, Blue or Brown
Description
A plastic laminated silkscreen print on cardboard depicting multiple early American cast and wrought iron kitchen tools and fireplace tools. The composition is flanked by wood paneling and brick columns suggesting a large fireplace opening. Wrought iron cranes laden with cooking tools extend from the brick columns. Cooking tools and andirons rest on the floor.
This mat is listed on the Spring 1958 Country Prints price list in two colorways, blue and brown. It is listed on the January 1960 Country Prints price list in the same two colorways (brick with pine, or brick with blue). It also appears in the brochure “Mat Sets by Robert Darr Wert/Country Prints”, c.1960; see images.
