HEINRICH KUEHN – NEUESTES STICK-ALBUM 785
M-JO002 [Heinrich Kuehn] – Neuestes Stick-Album 785
Brown leporello, litho, five colored patterns and five blue/white alphabet patterns. Two of the colored patterns occur in other booklets (compare E-WM027) and all five alphabet patterns are also duplicates.
Images donated by ebay seller joan10605, charted by Sytske Wijnsma. Pattern from her grandmother’s needlework studio in Manhattan, LaMer’s Studio, from 1909-1967, where she taught needlework and did work for musea and famous customers.
At least there are three new colored patterns. Imagine you buying a book and finding most of the contents are repeated from other books from the same publisher! Customers would have been displeased. Maybe the booklets were so expensive that people ever bought only one and then they wouldn’t have noticed. The lady who originally bought this book had a number of them and certainly would have seen the duplicates, as she used the patterns in her work. But no remarks on this subject have been made to her granddaughter, to the best of my knowledge.
We might think Heinrich Kuehn and their successor Vereinigte Stickmuster Verlag made quite a habit of this self-plagiarizing, and so they did, but they weren’t the only ones. Petersons Magazine freely published patterns from the Englishwoman’s Domestic Magazine without so much as a thank-you. I am currently working on a couple of handpainted Berlin woolwork patterns with lovely letters – but – those also contain duplicates. You wouldn’t expect that from handpainted stuff, but Louis Gluehr and Bruno Borner either spied on their competitor or there was a designer selling his patterns to both of them.