Osborne American "Toy Watercolor Set No. 24", Manufactured by Lewis Haehnlen. c. 1860s art pottery green vase Both are very large

Both are very large

This carved whimsy is quite the opposite of refined

Right: 6" t x 1 3/16" w

A portrait of a place and the community inhabiting and/or surrounding it if I ever saw one--and to my eye quite a joyful thing

Osborne American "Toy Watercolor Set No. 24", Manufactured by Lewis Haehnlen. c. 1860s art pottery green vase Both are very largeI've always got an eye out for antique watercolor sets, so lovely and special feeling (and usable still), though they've become so precious they're pretty hard to come by, American sets most of all. This "toy" set with mini paint blocks with was made by Osborne, one of the few 19th century American makers of artists paint, earning renown for especially vivid colors believed by artists to be equal or better to any made in Europe at the time. It dates