All Original 1860s Scholz and Janetzky American Travel Watercolor Set still bak (There is a piece of

(There is a piece of lint under the cub's top leg caught in a few photos--just lint

described as the king of birds and a kite-like figure

And perhaps it is Amelia herself at the center of the painting in her red dress and apron

and beautifully preserved Victorian sea moss pressing

13 7/8" x 10 13/16" x 11/16"

All Original 1860s Scholz and Janetzky American Travel Watercolor Set still bak (There is a piece ofYou 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