All Original 1860s Scholz and Janetzky American Travel Watercolor Set die-cut slanting down toward her partner

slanting down toward her partner

such beautiful and tender things I think

I found what appears to be an exact match of this lovely little bone and brass folding ruler that dates it to 1820 or so

The Winter's Day

one can build all sorts of towers and bridges and houses and more

All Original 1860s Scholz and Janetzky American Travel Watercolor Set die-cut slanting down toward her partnerYou can tell I am enamored with early watercolor sets, American ones especially, and this seems to be a rare one, distributed by Scholz and Janetzky, Philadelphia, featuring paints produced by George Osbourne, the leading maker of American watercolors at the time, also of Philadelphia. Founded in 1856 by Julius Scholz and Charles Janentzky, by 1876 the company had changed their name to Janentzky & Co, so these date to the 1860s or so, an early