Wealthy Apple, c. 1868 Hand-stenciled Watercolor Illustration from Horticultural Salesman Sample Catalog middle eastern cloth Stands steady on its own

Stands steady on its own

Produced with local clay

I love love love this little thing-- a tiny treen apple with a 36+ inch cloth measuring tape inside

Who cares what's inside

Wealthy Apple, c. 1868 Hand-stenciled Watercolor Illustration from Horticultural Salesman Sample Catalog middle eastern cloth Stands steady on its ownHere 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