Maggie Eppley's Early Basket of Flowers Watercolor Theroem in Original Frame tray serving tray but sometime something will jump

but sometime something will jump out at me

This Botany notebook from 1823 is the humblest looking from the outside with just a simple brown paper cover

a very dedicated Virginia "Summit" cigarette smoker I'd guess

12 inches tall

Maggie Eppley's Early Basket of Flowers Watercolor Theroem in Original Frame tray serving tray but sometime something will jumpSome fading to the once more pink red flowers at center of this one, but it's an early one, and to my eye the electric blue of the surrounding flowers more than compensates, and the boldly painted basket does, too. Especially nice to have Maggie J. Eppley beautifully spelled out below in inked fraktur letters and to find "drawed by Miss Rachel Eppling" written on the back of the frame in graphite, indicating that this is is most surely its original