Bessie Slater's Beautiful 19th Century Ink and Watercolor Botany Chart: Stems, Appendages, Calices antique sewing machine parts case Plenty of irregularity to the

Plenty of irregularity to the stone and a hairline crack running down one side of his vase back

Sold as found with old masking tape around the borders and on the back

with the birds almost disappearing amid the filagree of leaves--a happy discovery

with each letter of each name carefully carved in capital letters against stippled grounds

Bessie Slater's Beautiful 19th Century Ink and Watercolor Botany Chart: Stems, Appendages, Calices antique sewing machine parts case Plenty of irregularity to theThis is one of a series of beautiful antique ink and watercolor charts listed today, all executed long ago by a Bessie Slater (I believe, signed on the back of one of them), for a botany class, I presume. Each one homes in on a different aspect or aspects this one detailing stems (scaly, hairy, etc), appendages (sheath, tendril, etc) and calices (imbricated, double calyx, etc with 30 different sorts described and carefully illustrated in watercolor.