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Convenient to Buy Red Top Patching Plaster may be obtained in 2'/, 5, and 15-pound packages, and in 300-pound barrels. Each container has a distinctive Red Top mark ing, and carries the U. S. G. trade-mark, which has been the mark of quality plaster products for twenty-six years. Irrespective of whether you repair the cracks yourself, or order them repaired by your decorator, be sure that Red Top Patching Plaster is used, for Red Top assures you a satisfactory job. UNITED STATES GYPSUM COMPANY General Offices: 300 W. Adams St. Chicago 'S EXHIBIT P* 3 8 2*30 lOM PRINTED IN U .S. A. COPYRIGHT 1929. UNITED STATES GYPSUM COMPANY BB025 0048 " I "" ".I 1,11 ..Ml'U' Mi .' ii.pu f*l>* mt.. i,,.,, i.D-fll Here's Way To End Unsighdy Cracks What Is Red Top Patching Plaster? In Plaster Red Top Patch ing Plaster is the UNSIGHTLY cracks in walls and patching plaster ceilings need no longer be endured, manufactured by the United States for they can be easily and permanently Gypsum Company. It is not plaster of mended at negligible expense. Paris, or a makeshift, but a plaster All that is needed is a package of Red Top Patching Plaster, water and a broad knife. The water is mixed with the plaster according to directions in the package; the mix is "buttered" into the crack with a knife and left to dry, after which it is scientifically compounded especially for patching. It dries slowly enough to permit the making of a satisfactory patch, and after it has dried it is hard and strong, and can be decorated with any decorating material. sandpapered smooth. And except for the larger patches that's all there is to it. Plaster patching is especially important before re-decorating. Most plaster cracks Large cracks are patched with two are caused by the settlement of a building applications of Red Top Patching Plaster. on its foundations, the slight twists and The first application is made so that the shifts incidental to the settlement causing patch does not come out quite level with the cracks. By re-decorating time, how the surface of the wall, and is allowed to ever, this settlement usually is completed, dry for thirty minutes. The second and plaster cracks that are repaired will application is then made. After it has stay repaired. dried, the patch is sandpapered smooth. Decorators will repair cracks if repair Very small cracks is specified. But be sure that they use Red --called "hair Top Patching Plaster. Thus you can cracks"--can be assure yourself of a patch that will not mended by work mar decoration, for Red Top Patching ing the plaster Plaster is unusually white, and there is into them with nothing in it that will stain or discolor a a small brush. decorating material. )