Botanical Pencil Drawing by Hiram Campbell Merrill, 1909 Griebel Instrument co keeping one's pennies and quarters

keeping one's pennies and quarters super secure

Nova Scotia

with light wear and some spotting to the wood on one side

but overall excellent condition

culture indigenous to  the Brazilian Amazon and believe it likely dates to the earlyish 20th century

Botanical Pencil Drawing by Hiram Campbell Merrill, 1909 Griebel Instrument co keeping one's pennies and quartersA listed artist, Hiram Campbell Merrill (1866 1958) was a Boston born painter and engraver, who in addition to pursuing his own art worked for Harpers magazine in New York. This drawing was made on a trip to Brittany in 1909, during which he made studies that provided material for many later paintings and engravings. And a really lovely drawing it is, of a sprig of a branch with a few furling leaves, which he executed in Taden (a commune in the Ctes