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The pink cloth of 1889

16 Oct 2013

There are indeed some guides from 1889 in a pink-coloured cloth, looking quite distinct from the usual Baedeker red. There is, for example, one Nordost-Deutschland 23 (1889) on auction right now.

This cloth, or rather, the dye was experimental, but it wasn't intended to be pink. The dye was aniline-based and turned out to fade very rapidly in any form of light. So the experiment wasn't repeated...

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