Small Fraktur Watercolor and Hand-colored Engravings c. 1840s bear in shoe with it's handle made from

with it's handle made from the casing of a 50 caliber FA 1932 bullet

and it closes tight and flush

5 7/8" tall x 2 7/8" diameter at widest

where at times Mary shifted the direction of her crayon coloring of the squares from vertical to horizontal

3 1/2" x 5 1/2" and in overall good condition

Small Fraktur Watercolor and Hand-colored Engravings c. 1840s bear in shoe with it's handle made fromI couldn't resist this little Fraktur watercolor of bowl with fruit and flowers, inscribed as a gift to a Miss Charlotte Wetherbee from her instructress, Mary M. R., who then writes: "Oh may your downward path be be fair, may you the Saviour's image bear." I'm not entirely sure the nature of instruction, but found the fraktur along with three pages from Flora's Lexicon, An Interpretation of the Language and Sentiment of Flowers, dated 1839, which