All Original 1860s Scholz and Janetzky American Travel Watercolor Set still bak and beautifully preserved Victorian sea

and beautifully preserved Victorian sea moss pressing

size relation to each other may be just very slightly off

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

described as the king of birds and a kite-like figure

so I divided them out

All Original 1860s Scholz and Janetzky American Travel Watercolor Set still bak and beautifully preserved Victorian seaYou 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