This appears to have been a small series of only four designs, which you would have repeated as many times as you needed to fill out however big a quilt you wanted. They're very reminiscent of mid-19th century leaf and wreath quilts. I never did find an image of a completed quilt, only the images of the individual blocks.
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Barbara Bell 1947 - complete run!
Complete run of Barbara Bell mail order patterns from 1947 ! Barbara Bell 1667 Barbara Bell 1652 Barbara Bell 1613

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Advance introduced the 3R subseries in late 1940 or 1941. These were marketed to teens (girls, mostly, although there was at least one boy...
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Claire Tilden 242 housedress and 500 back-wrap housedress from 1936. This was a mail-order line and the packet design and artwork look like ...
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Well, this mystery is a little bit solved, at least. I got mail order pattern 4633 a little while ago but have had a dickens of a time find...
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