Radiant Peach! Antique Theorem Watercolor on Watermarked Paper antique bottle and I have to agree--I've

and I have to agree--I've never see one packed with as many darnings as this

this moon shaped match holder feels friendly and fortuitous--a force for good watching over one's world day and night

the one at right shows Patent No 4887753

with green felted patch on top

plus adding a poem to the backside of the page to boot

Radiant Peach! Antique Theorem Watercolor on Watermarked Paper antique bottle and I have to agree--I'veOne of three super saturated, strongly graphic old theorem watercolors of fruit today, purchased together in Pennsylvania and making me think about the kinship between theorems (made using stencils, and I believe with glass straws used for blowing the base level of watercolor paint) and airbrushed designs. Surely all done by one person, and a faint penciled number at the corner of each suggests they were likely part of a larger series (one sees