SOLD C. 1870s Watercolor Paint Box with Papers, as Found in PA brutalist ceramics This is the second table

This is the second table snuff box I've found

F was a Maude Findley

so this feels perhaps akin to picturing a fire drill or duck and cover exercise--but compared to similar cups from the period that usually depicted games like 'playing at marbles' or 'leap frog

Still lovely

A pretty fabulous trio of rockers--looking rather Calder-esque to me

SOLD C. 1870s Watercolor Paint Box with Papers, as Found in PA brutalist ceramics This is the second tableI love an early box of watercolors, but even more I love finding a lovely box with lots of notes inside and happily this is both! I haven't been able to determine the maker of the "toy" watercolors, embossed with crowns" but believe they date to the 1860s 70s, and certainly either British or German, made for export. (I love that yellow paper label announcing them "Free from Poison," with text in German and French following. And then these notes folded