Very Last of the Old Birdlover's Watercolors: White-Wiged (sic) Scoter transparencies but the mold itself was

but the mold itself was made by Eppelsheimer & Co

The #5 Schleuter under the name of the school is not the address

It appears that the handmade paper was painted first

Clearly this was much smoked

really gets me

Very Last of the Old Birdlover's Watercolors: White-Wiged (sic) Scoter transparencies but the mold itself wasTruly the very last few today from a great bunch of old naive watercolor of birds done by someone long ago who was quite serious about his birds! Each and every one of them a charmer I think, this one portraying a White Wiged (meant to say White Winged) Scoter, a sea duck. I really love the sort of crudeness of this one relative to some of the others, and of course the misspelled attribution, written first in graphite and then watercolored over in