Bessie Slater's Beautiful 19th Century Ink and Watercolor Botany Chart: Stems, Appendages, Calices antique sewing machine parts case but pretty great still even

but pretty great still even if you've mastered your multiplication tables

Plenty of irregularity to the stone and a hairline crack running down one side of his vase back

A few losses to this antique carved marble folk art book

There is no mark on this one anywhere that I can find but based on the nails and the wood

with the birds almost disappearing amid the filagree of leaves--a happy discovery

Bessie Slater's Beautiful 19th Century Ink and Watercolor Botany Chart: Stems, Appendages, Calices antique sewing machine parts case but pretty great still evenThis is one of a series of beautiful antique ink and watercolor charts listed today, all executed long ago by a Bessie Slater (I believe, signed on the back of one of them), for a botany class, I presume. Each one homes in on a different aspect or aspects this one detailing stems (scaly, hairy, etc), appendages (sheath, tendril, etc) and calices (imbricated, double calyx, etc with 30 different sorts described and carefully illustrated in watercolor.