Historical observations of S And , in combination with the color versus rate-of-decline relationship for well observed SN 1991bg-like supernovae , are used to estimate a rate of decline \Delta m _ { 15 } ( B ) = 2.21 and an intrinsic color at maximum [ B ( 0 ) - V ( 0 ) ] _ { o } = 1.32 for SN 1885A .