Osborne American "Toy Watercolor Set No. 24", Manufactured by Lewis Haehnlen. c. 1860s amuse 2 1/8" w x 1

2 1/8" w x 1 1/2" t x 1/2" d

These laws also violate federal law as the harvest and sale of walrus ivory by Alaska Natives is protected by the Marine Mammal Protection Act

The combination of sky and sea on this one I think is especially great

and wonderfully irregular

The colors on these early ones are the best

Osborne American "Toy Watercolor Set No. 24", Manufactured by Lewis Haehnlen. c. 1860s amuse 2 1/8" w x 1I've always got an eye out for antique watercolor sets, so lovely and special feeling (and usable still), though they've become so precious they're pretty hard to come by, American sets most of all. This "toy" set with mini paint blocks with was made by Osborne, one of the few 19th century American makers of artists paint, earning renown for especially vivid colors believed by artists to be equal or better to any made in Europe at the time. It dates