Mid 19th C. Apothecary Bottle with Luisa Wells' Hand-drawn Bird and Note Adirondack painting and might use for holding

and might use for holding pens and pencils or paintbrushes if not as a smallish vase

There appears to be perhaps one tiny hairline crack on the bottom underside at one edge - documented in the last

which is wonderfully worn

must have collected hundreds of these free giveaway domino cards (one per each tin of Summits) in order to form this complete double six deck

Mid 19th C. Apothecary Bottle with Luisa Wells' Hand-drawn Bird and Note Adirondack painting and might use for holdingI am perpetually in search of drawings like this bird, and all the better that this one was drawn then affixed to this French apothecary bottle. It is signed by a Luisa Wells, with a handwritten note above that is a bit hard to read, but appears to be addressed to a Master Gaines White (or similar), who Luisa writes "is a fine scholar and learns well." And so I believe Luisa was likely Master Gaines' tutor, and that she likely travelled to France, and