Wealthy Apple, c. 1868 Hand-stenciled Watercolor Illustration from Horticultural Salesman Sample Catalog antique cat toy or the peg joints used

or the peg joints used for attaching the figures to their chairs

11 1/2" tall x 8" diameter at widest

In addition to the wonderful paintings of the animals themselves

perhaps next to where one hangs the keys

This marvelous ink and watercolor of "the greyhound" is one of a group I purchased from a seller in England

Wealthy Apple, c. 1868 Hand-stenciled Watercolor Illustration from Horticultural Salesman Sample Catalog antique cat toy or the peg joints usedHere a Wealthy apple, and an Alexander peach, listed separately today too I don't find these often, but recently came across a handful, and I just think they're gorgeous. This would have been one page in a salesman sample type horticultural specimen catalogue (unbound, but held together in a folio I believe). It is not a lithograph rather, the apple and leaves here were rendered in a manner akin to a theorem watercolor, using multiple, hand cut