Wealthy Apple, c. 1868 Hand-stenciled Watercolor Illustration from Horticultural Salesman Sample Catalog antique weight applying her faux beauty mark

applying her faux beauty mark or two

and the smaller one are printed in red with a grapes and fruit and vines pattern

and am happy to do try to do that carefully before sending if you would like

this double exposure snapshot is a perfect case in point--and a perfect thing

43/4" t x 1 1/4" x 1 1/4"

Wealthy Apple, c. 1868 Hand-stenciled Watercolor Illustration from Horticultural Salesman Sample Catalog antique weight applying her faux beauty markHere a Wealthy apple, and an Alexander peach, listed separately today too I don't find these often, but recently came across a handful, and I just think they're gorgeous. This would have been one page in a salesman sample type horticultural specimen catalogue (unbound, but held together in a folio I believe). It is not a lithograph rather, the apple and leaves here were rendered in a manner akin to a theorem watercolor, using multiple, hand cut