SOLD C. 1870s Watercolor Paint Box with Papers, as Found in PA brutalist ceramics Weighs 8 3/4" pounds

Weighs 8 3/4" pounds

Made to sit on a desk

F was a Maude Findley

and two tiny carved breasts

SOLD C. 1870s Watercolor Paint Box with Papers, as Found in PA brutalist ceramics Weighs 8 3/4" poundsI love an early box of watercolors, but even more I love finding a lovely box with lots of notes inside and happily this is both! I haven't been able to determine the maker of the "toy" watercolors, embossed with crowns" but believe they date to the 1860s 70s, and certainly either British or German, made for export. (I love that yellow paper label announcing them "Free from Poison," with text in German and French following. And then these notes folded