Gray Wolf and Golden Jackal, Exquisite Early 19th Century Watercolor folk art greyhound a talented fraktur artist)—would become

a talented fraktur artist)—would become quite a notable figure not just in Lehigh Valley

is this carved wooden pocket knife

and I believe would have been used for medicine or perfume

once painted black but with lots of wear that makes each of its four sides distinguished by a progressive loss of paint (and gain of warm dry wood patina

looking for them wherever I go

Gray Wolf and Golden Jackal, Exquisite Early 19th Century Watercolor folk art greyhound a talented fraktur artist)—would becomeA few more today from a second batch of fine c. 1840s watercolors, which I went back to my source in Germany to scoop up after having sold the last several I had quickly. This is not a hand colored engraving, it is an original, very finely executed ink and watercolor drawing, and my photos do it no justice; the color and detail is just glorious! One sees hand colored engravings in this manner (Bertuch et al) but quite a different thing in watercolor,