'B.A.L.M.' and 'United' Painting Specifications for Architects
Port Adelaide, Australasian United Paint Co. Ltd., and British Australian Lead Manufacturers Pty. Ltd., [December 1939].
Quarto (292 x 252 mm), 72 leaves (including 36a, all printed rectos only) with numerous tables, 5 full-page plates (of specific buildings painted with the companies' products, from photographs), and 7 full-page sheets of mounted paint colour samples plus 6 card section dividers with leading edge tabs.
Original cloth-covered three-ring binder lettered in gilt on the front cover (most of the gilt has flaked off, and the long panel carrying the similarly-affected spine titling is now detached and loosely inserted); trifling marginal loss to silverfish to a few leaves; an excellent copy.
There are 154 colour samples, predominantly in a variety of gloss and matt finishes. The one stand-out sheet contains 13 samples of 'Petrumite' Imitation Stone Paint. We can locate no copies of this impressive item in Trove, perhaps not surprisingly given the date of publication.
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