Great Britain and Ireland: Gorgeous c. 1840 Ink and Watercolor Hand-drawn Map cylindrical lidded box to feel rather elegant

to feel rather elegant

A few scrapes and scratches here and there

but it looks like the nails were removed at some point at the strips were glued (though there is no glue showing

This (update: Revolutionary War era) iron canon shot to me is that

from face to palette to smart suit to dripping paint brush

Great Britain and Ireland: Gorgeous c. 1840 Ink and Watercolor Hand-drawn Map cylindrical lidded box to feel rather elegantI forever have an eye out for hand drawn maps of all sorts, and especially ink and watercolor ones of this ilk, which I believe were done in school as part of geography class (can you imagine?!) These I purchased from a seller near to me in Massachusetts, who dates them to 1840 or so based on a map of the United States done by the same person, which included Texas Territory (Texas became a state in 1845). To me these are beautiful in a similar way to