Colour Theory Paint (2 results)

64mo. 2.5 x 4 in. [2], 55, [3] pp. With 1 large folding 4-pp. paint sample plate, w/ 32 mounted colour paint samples, text elevation illustrations of Arts & Crafts 4-Square and Spanish Revival homes. Flexible brown pigskin, embossed borders, rounded corners, gilt lettering stamped on front cover (couple minor closed tears to final text leaf, minor age toning to endpapers), still a VG copy. Third edition of this compact vest pocket edition of the very scarce Carter paint calculator designed to provide specific instructions on how to mix Carter White Lead Paints sold by the gallon, with their specific additional colours, linseed oil, turpentine, and "Japan Drier" to be carefully mixed beforehand after the painter had determined the specific amount of paint by using the calculator. Carter Master Painter "Color Packs" came in 53 different colours, shades, and tints including Lamp Black, French Ochre, Venetian Red, Raw Umber, Burnt Sienna, Parisian Blue, and others as carefully depicted in the folding colour paint sample chart. Carter White Lead Co. was founded in 1878 by Levi Carter (1831-1903), and partners, who pioneered the use of powdered lead in mixing durable paints, building and operating the Chicago plant, which at the beginning of the 20th Century was the largest single white lead factory in the World, as well as plants in East Omaha, and Montreal. In the first decade of the 20th Century they claimed to produce half of all paint used in North America. Worldcat locates 1 copy (Athenaeum of Philadelphia); See: Adam Fletcher, A History of the Carter White Lead Company Factory in East Omaha, North Omaha History (Jan. 20, 2020); Jacqui Ainlay-Conley: Progress in a Can: An Examination of One Industry Through the Gilded Age and Progressive Era, Historical Studies Journal (Spring, 2007), Vol. 24, pp. 1-15.…

4to. [8 pp (unpaginated)]. Colour and black & white illustrations, colour-illustrated self-printed wrappers, stapled as issued (very minor tear at foot of spine, slight shelfwear), VG-; Fourteen original photographs, 12 sized 8 x 10.25 in., two sized 5 x 7 in., nine silver gelatin black & white (several w/ commercial photographers stamps on verso), 5 colour photographs, NF set. First edition of this very scarce dealer's promotional packet extolling the virtues of the Boysen Colorizer System, complete with sales pitch, and fantastic photographs showing the displays and products. The original Colorizer System was developed in the 1930s by two anonymous entrepreneurs in Salt Lake City, UT. In 1949, they contracted with the Walter N. Boysen Paint Company in Oakland, CA to produce the paints which were then introduced nationwide as a rapid paint-formulation system in a House & Garden Magazine article. The original system adopted by Boysen consisted of 1322 paint colours derived from 31 concentrated colourants as well as white and light gray base paints into which the concentrates were mixed. The brochure and photographs provide a fantastic guide for the marketing of the system, with a paint sample album for 60-second color matching, Color Center chip display, as well as the national advertising campaign pushed by Boysen. The photographs include a photo of painter and housewife examining the sample book by Joern Gerdts, Commercial Photographer, Salt Lake City, UT; Boysen Colorizer Paints advertising spot on the Ed Sullivan Show at CBS, photo by Joseph Alpern, Beverly Hills, CA; an anniversary Boysen Paint Sale window display, and more. See: Kuehni & Schwarz, Color Ordered: A Survey of Color Systems from Antiquity to the Present (2007), pp. 268-270; No copies located in Worldcat.…