All Original 1860s Scholz and Janetzky American Travel Watercolor Set still bak so I divided them out

so I divided them out

then meticulously cut out (the backs are nearly as good as the fronts)

and beautifully preserved Victorian sea moss pressing

size relation to each other may be just very slightly off

(There is a piece of lint under the cub's top leg caught in a few photos--just lint

All Original 1860s Scholz and Janetzky American Travel Watercolor Set still bak so I divided them outYou can tell I am enamored with early watercolor sets, American ones especially, and this seems to be a rare one, distributed by Scholz and Janetzky, Philadelphia, featuring paints produced by George Osbourne, the leading maker of American watercolors at the time, also of Philadelphia. Founded in 1856 by Julius Scholz and Charles Janentzky, by 1876 the company had changed their name to Janentzky & Co, so these date to the 1860s or so, an early