This is another Whip-o-Lite shade from 1943 and was designated the No. 359-variegated. It's another good example of a Whip-o-Lite shade with flocked and non-flocked areas to it's design. While the design itself was probably printed on the Whip-o-Lite paper, the flocking would have been hand decorated. The hand decorating would make every shade a one of a kind, since the way it looked would depend on the person working on it. You can see on this one that some of the small leaves were flocked while most were not. The parts of the design to be flocked, or not, was probably up to the imagination of the person doing the hand decoration.

 

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