Champion Quince, Hand Stenciled Page From c. 1868 Nursery Specimens Salesman Sample Catalog aniamls terrific old cream colored paint

terrific old cream colored paint

At first I imagined "Our Dazzler" as a fluffy little show dog or exotic cat

out of a huge pile at a shop in NH

so perhaps it was meant to press a wax seal

all highly covetable

Champion Quince, Hand Stenciled Page From c. 1868 Nursery Specimens Salesman Sample Catalog aniamls terrific old cream colored paintA radiant Champion Quince, glowing like sunshine. I've handled a few examples (of apples and peaches and pears) of this type before this would have been one page in a salesman sample type horticultural specimen catalogue (unbound, but held together in a large folio case). This is not a lithograph rather, the quince here was rendered in a manner akin to a theorem watercolor, using multiple, hand cut stencils and meticulously applied layers of