All Original 1860s Scholz and Janetzky American Travel Watercolor Set antique sailors cosh the Ohio-based bookbinder and publisher

the Ohio-based bookbinder and publisher of Masonic and Odd Fellows books who

with a couple of old nails still in its feet via which it must have once attached to a rail or base

though made with a fold down the middle

I really can't find any other examples of this out there for sale

and at some point was stickered by the Orrington Historical Society

All Original 1860s Scholz and Janetzky American Travel Watercolor Set antique sailors cosh the Ohio-based bookbinder and publisherYou can tell I am enamored with early watercolor sets, American ones especially, and this seems to be a rare one, distributed by Scholz and Janetzky, Philadelphia, featuring paints produced by George Osbourne, the leading maker of American watercolors at the time, also of Philadelphia. Founded in 1856 by Julius Scholz and Charles Janentzky, by 1876 the company had changed their name to Janentzky & Co, so these date to the 1860s or so, an early