Charming C. 1930s Herbarium, 20 Specimens Preserved Under Wraps with Handwritten Descriptions gold birds with scattered light toning spots

with scattered light toning spots and one small lower edge tear

and WIFE spelled out in pins--what could be better

Super painterly and evocative

With two holes in the frame at top for threading to hang if desired

and what the flags and banners do to the face of the structure

Charming C. 1930s Herbarium, 20 Specimens Preserved Under Wraps with Handwritten Descriptions gold birds with scattered light toning spotsThere are much more stunningly beautiful, much earlier herbarium out there, but I really love this one, with the collected botanical specimens preserved under film with celluloid tape around their borders, which has both kept them very well protected and makes the whole thing feel particularly time capsule esque. Twenty specimens here by my count, and some great ones among them, including a Jack in the Pulpit, which I at least have always thought