Wealthy Apple, c. 1868 Hand-stenciled Watercolor Illustration from Horticultural Salesman Sample Catalog middle eastern cloth I love love love this

I love love love this little thing-- a tiny treen apple with a 36+ inch cloth measuring tape inside

There is a clean tear along  the bottom edge (as I have it oriented) and a rough long edge from where it was cut out from the album

shows a few stains

There are a few small chips to the bone and ebony as pictured

but is also great on its side

Wealthy Apple, c. 1868 Hand-stenciled Watercolor Illustration from Horticultural Salesman Sample Catalog middle eastern cloth I love love love thisHere 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