1925 Ad F C Davidge Okame Wallpaper Japan Home Decor Samurai Weaver Toronto HB3 XGTB3 an official parachute tester

an official parachute tester

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1925 Ad F C Davidge Okame Wallpaper Japan Home Decor Samurai Weaver Toronto HB3 XGTB3 an official parachute testerThis is an original 1925 black and white print ad for grasscloth wallpaper from F. C. Davidge & Company of 28 Wellington Street West of Toronto, Canada. The caption writes, "Some eight hundred years ago when the Daimyo returned from his yearly visit to the Tokogawa Shogunate, he would bring with him, as his most valued gift, lengths of cloth woven from the Honeysuckle vine, which grows wild on the hillsides of Japan. This cloth was used by the Samurai