Pink Roses Antique Watercolor #3 shackman japan ) It really seems right

) It really seems right that a single louse should be honored and preserved with this closely observed drawing

This sketchbook was signed by Elton Silas Durkee (1871-1927

and it seems likely that's where it originated

with two old horizontal fold lines

it still swivels smoothy but is a hair off flush when closed

Pink Roses Antique Watercolor #3 shackman japan ) It really seems rightThis is one of three watercolors of roses I purchased together, I believe all found together too, perhaps done at the same time by three different members of a family, or maybe more likely schoolmates. I like them individually in different ways, but also together, variations on a theme becoming in a sense portraits of their makers. This one, the most "primitive" of the three I'd say, with shield at upper left, is signed (maybe with the named of a