Perfect Palette, Modern Style, C. Late 19th Century Windsor and Newton Nearly Untouched "Scholastic" Watercolors black lettering mounted on board

mounted on board

Just a tiny thing with a safety pin stuck through the back may years ago so as to be able to wear as a pin

to me it reads as full of fortitude and resilience

and energetically stippled all over spots

4 3/4" long

Perfect Palette, Modern Style, C. Late 19th Century Windsor and Newton Nearly Untouched "Scholastic" Watercolors black lettering mounted on boardMy first attraction to this watercolor set was for its perfection as an object, with the elongated, square cornered shape of the watercolor blocks, together with their crisp, apparent unused ness, just completely doing it for me aesthetically, in a manner akin to old paint swatch color cards and the like. This set also strikes me as perfectly embodying the transition to the modern the paint blocks cakes here are whole, and removable, as with 19th