SOLD Lovely (and Usable) Booklet of Nicholson's Peerless Japanese Transparent Watercolors silver painted And then these holes burned

And then these holes burned through the paper at the center of a number of blooms

better than photos

but the whoever the maker they certainly knew what they were doing

I love that the maker of this whimsy used the balls not only to sign it (ELD) and date it (1966)

which becomes a different thing from every view

SOLD Lovely (and Usable) Booklet of Nicholson's Peerless Japanese Transparent Watercolors silver painted And then these holes burnedThis is really lovely a booklet of Nicholson's "Japanese Transparent Watercolors" manufactured by Peerless Color Laboratories, Rochester, NY copyright 1902, this booklet produced in 1937. These were specifically produced "for the artistic tinting of photographs, lantern slides, Bromide enlargements, half tone prints and process work of all kinds" but as numerous pages of description and instruction at the beginning of the booklet explains, lend