Dappled Apple, Antique Theorem Watercolor on Watermarked Paper finely made wooden clothes pin one of them flecked with

one of them flecked with a bit of brown

with three pins visible on the underside

with these cards (based on their backs) dating to about 1890

A beauty of an old carved wooden toy pistol

I've found a few other boxes designed in a similar manner

Dappled Apple, Antique Theorem Watercolor on Watermarked Paper finely made wooden clothes pin one of them flecked withOne of three lush, strongly graphic old theorem watercolor paintings of fruit today, purchased together in Pennsylvania and making me think about the kinship between theorems (made using stencils, and with glass straws used for blowing the base level of watercolor paint) and airbrushed designs. Surely all done by one person, and a faint penciled number at the corner of each suggests they were likely part of a larger series (one sees similar numbering