Stained glass door made from Pantone swatches by: Armin Blasbichier
Made from 585 colorful laminated diapositives, sitting on glass in a laminated wooden frame, the ‘T III: Inception Door’ guards a private residence in Luson, Italy.
I'm doing some tinkering on Fauxstalgia stuff, and since I believe in sharing resources, here's an RGB PNG version of the official DC pantone guide, with the swatches re-sampled from current pantone standards. This set is from 1982, but should be generally believable for most stuff post-WWII.
The versions floating around online (two of which are under the fold) are scans of prints and are not accurate for color-picking.
Now, these colors would also be altered by the printing process, but for clean, pre-print versions, here's some authenticity.