From The Queen Breeder, 1921 Postmarked Cover, Bellevue Ohio brushes box all of which enhances the

all of which enhances the sense that this was crafted with mystical aspirations

This one veers toward complete abstraction—just a very soft sky of pink giving way to light blue

with a little splitting at upper left

another holding a fan

Bone had a great line and terrific sense of humor--which this pen and ink drawing animating a Victorian wicker reclining chair cut from an old catalog wonderfully exemplifies

From The Queen Breeder, 1921 Postmarked Cover, Bellevue Ohio brushes box all of which enhances theI am not sure if this envelope once contained a queen bee in a small queen bee box or just some correspondence, but what en envelop! A little research seems to indicate that H. G Quirin was at it breeding queens for quite a long time, with a notation (of an advertisement in a bee keeping journal) as early as 1861, but with this envelop postmarked 1921! (I think perhaps the the former notation is incorrect, but who knows?) The envelop itself looks c.