Bessie Slater's Beautiful 19th Century Ink and Watercolor Botany Chart: Stems, Appendages, Calices antique sewing machine parts case and then a small batch

and then a small batch of clear of colorful cocktails at happy hour

Sold as found with old masking tape around the borders and on the back

It was acquired by Shermin Williams in 1929

looking propped perhaps for some fruit picking

this old lovingly homemade three post stacker is about as expressive as it gets

Bessie Slater's Beautiful 19th Century Ink and Watercolor Botany Chart: Stems, Appendages, Calices antique sewing machine parts case and then a small batchThis is one of a series of beautiful antique ink and watercolor charts listed today, all executed long ago by a Bessie Slater (I believe, signed on the back of one of them), for a botany class, I presume. Each one homes in on a different aspect or aspects this one detailing stems (scaly, hairy, etc), appendages (sheath, tendril, etc) and calices (imbricated, double calyx, etc with 30 different sorts described and carefully illustrated in watercolor.