Wealthy Apple, c. 1868 Hand-stenciled Watercolor Illustration from Horticultural Salesman Sample Catalog antique cat toy and even better with a

and even better with a fruit tree blooming between them to give the beauty of their plumage a run for its money--and to bring their significance as symbols of beauty

but I'd rather imagine it was a place to stash valentines

or the peg joints used for attaching the figures to their chairs

one was meant to place one of the included engravings in the frame

perhaps next to where one hangs the keys

Wealthy Apple, c. 1868 Hand-stenciled Watercolor Illustration from Horticultural Salesman Sample Catalog antique cat toy and even better with aHere 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