Dappled Apple, Antique Theorem Watercolor on Watermarked Paper finely made wooden clothes pin It will sit or kneel

It will sit or kneel on its own in various positions

and were/are often made by artists specialized in making them

rare primer itself

A beauty of an old carved wooden toy pistol

with these cards (based on their backs) dating to about 1890

Dappled Apple, Antique Theorem Watercolor on Watermarked Paper finely made wooden clothes pin It will sit or kneelOne of three lush, strongly graphic old theorem watercolor paintings of fruit today, purchased together in Pennsylvania and making me think about the kinship between theorems (made using stencils, and with glass straws used for blowing the base level of watercolor paint) and airbrushed designs. Surely all done by one person, and a faint penciled number at the corner of each suggests they were likely part of a larger series (one sees similar numbering