Wonderful "Our Boys Colour Box" Unused 19th C Watercolor Color Set stacking blocks Just a charming little vintage

Just a charming little vintage trinket box made of paper mache in the shape of a turtle and lacquered in gold and black

hoping for pages and pages of gorgeous calligraphy practice

”Like the infanta at the center of that painting

This lovely little lacquered papier mache snuff box

and a sweet little mirror to boot

Wonderful "Our Boys Colour Box" Unused 19th C Watercolor Color Set stacking blocks Just a charming little vintageI've searched and searched and can't find another watercolor set quite like this one, or a maker of antique watercolor sets in St. Louis. However, it seems that George Osbourne, one of the few 19th century American makers of artists paint (and deemed as good as the British) produced watercolors embossed with eagles, as these are with the ones I've found dating the 1830s. I would think based on the color litho lid that these came at least a few decades