SOLD Lovely (and Usable) Booklet of Nicholson's Peerless Japanese Transparent Watercolors gifts for the cat lover Stitching holding tight

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including for the way the two shiny silver metal plates frame either side of the recessed tree-like form's "trunk"

His work gained recognition in the 1980s with its inclusion in exhibitions at the at the Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts

but stable and all the better for it I think

to my eye only enhancing its beauty

SOLD Lovely (and Usable) Booklet of Nicholson's Peerless Japanese Transparent Watercolors gifts for the cat lover Stitching holding tightThis 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