Osborne American "Toy Watercolor Set No. 24", Manufactured by Lewis Haehnlen. c. 1860s amuse plus Dorothy-like painted red slippers

plus Dorothy-like painted red slippers

Staining and a couple of tears along the right quarter of drawing as evident and detailed

but it remains in great structural shape and I think all the more beautiful for the wear

which came in a wooden box labeled "Alphabet and Kindergarten Building Blocks

One of two stone carved books this week

Osborne American "Toy Watercolor Set No. 24", Manufactured by Lewis Haehnlen. c. 1860s amuse plus Dorothy-like painted red slippersI've always got an eye out for antique watercolor sets, so lovely and special feeling (and usable still), though they've become so precious they're pretty hard to come by, American sets most of all. This "toy" set with mini paint blocks with was made by Osborne, one of the few 19th century American makers of artists paint, earning renown for especially vivid colors believed by artists to be equal or better to any made in Europe at the time. It dates