From The Queen Breeder, 1921 Postmarked Cover, Bellevue Ohio brushes box but then to my delight

but then to my delight there were more and more and more

another holding a fan

this one has a wonderfully warm patina

which is how she balances best

Bone had a great line and terrific sense of humor--which this pen and ink drawing animating a Victorian wicker reclining chair cut from an old catalog wonderfully exemplifies

From The Queen Breeder, 1921 Postmarked Cover, Bellevue Ohio brushes box but then to my delightI am not sure if this envelope once contained a queen bee in a small queen bee box or just some correspondence, but what en envelop! A little research seems to indicate that H. G Quirin was at it breeding queens for quite a long time, with a notation (of an advertisement in a bee keeping journal) as early as 1861, but with this envelop postmarked 1921! (I think perhaps the the former notation is incorrect, but who knows?) The envelop itself looks c.