Parker and Wood Seeds and Tools Victorian Watermelon Man Trade Card Rosenthal netter and also as wonderful objects

and also  as wonderful objects to hold in the hands

are highly collected and fairly rare to find

MA (more below) and was commissioned by one of the Dummers as a model of sorts of the original colonial era fulling mill on the property--built by John Pearson on the Mill River

this one with a more dense and saturated concentration of elongated triangular forms

Parker and Wood Seeds and Tools Victorian Watermelon Man Trade Card Rosenthal netter and also as wonderful objectsThis is my favorite trade card I've found, c. 1890 or so I believe, and a pretty rare one the only other copy I can find of it out there is held int he Cornell University Library Rare and Manuscript Collection. What a face, and what a watermelon, and how much fun I think it would have been to visit Parker & Wood's Agricultural Warehouse and Seed Store (with celebrated ice tools!) in Boston, located just a few steps from historic Faneuil Hall. 5 1 8" x