Bessie Slater's Beautiful 19th Century Ink and Watercolor Botany Chart: Leaves vintage cast metal dinosaur with hat and what looks

with hat and what looks like a torch--or perhaps the wand of a snow blower

but as one may not need four toy guns I'm selling them individually

this would be fairly usable as a ruler for smallish things

lid opens smoothly and closes flush

with the lovely star made of inlaid mother of pearl bits at center still firmly in place

Bessie Slater's Beautiful 19th Century Ink and Watercolor Botany Chart: Leaves vintage cast metal dinosaur with hat and what looksThis is one of a series of beautiful antique ink and watercolor charts listed today, all executed long ago by a Bessie Slater (I believe, signed on the back of one of them), for a botany class, I presume. Each one homes in on a different aspect this one the structures of leaves with twenty different sorts described and carefully illustrated in watercolor (undulate, peltate, bipinnate, etc.) More than ever these days, when delight in the natural world