DESFOSSE & KARTH MANUFACTORY, late 19th–early 20th century. “Le Vieux Pont,” created by the Jules DESFOSSE manufactory in 1862. Set of five panels, printed using a gray-scale woodblock print on a white background. Dimensions of the pattern on one strip: 260 x 47.5 cm (can be trimmed to a height of approximately 200 cm). Panel width: 237.5 cm. In good condition, despite a few scattered small stains and some tears along the margins. Source: Notes by E.A. FAUCONNIER on the Desfossés and early wallpaper makers, DK 1935/1936. This gray-scale design was originally intended to consist of twenty-four strips, but only five were engraved; they were discovered in a cellar in 1894. (...) It sold very well in England and the United States, No. 3816.