c. 1830s, Very Rare Osborne's Superfine American Watercolors Travel Set mask with beard with wonderfully irregular notched bentwood

with wonderfully irregular notched bentwood handles

painting measures 4"x5 1/2

)--a lot of it not so much my cup of tea

As November approaches

because these are such beautifully designed objects

c. 1830s, Very Rare Osborne's Superfine American Watercolors Travel Set mask with beard with wonderfully irregular notched bentwoodI keep my eyes peeled for early watercolor sets, but the prices on these tend to be way beyond me and the early American sets even more precious than English ones. I lucked out with this, which is a rare, very beautiful c. 1830s Osborne Superfine travel set sometimes called a "toy set" I believe, due to the diminuative size of the paint cakes. Osborne was one of the few 19th century American makers of artists paint, earning renown for especially vivid