All Original 1860s Scholz and Janetzky American Travel Watercolor Set still bak how much fun to build

how much fun to build an outfit around this

13 7/8" x 10 13/16" x 11/16"

so I divided them out

and beautifully preserved Victorian sea moss pressing

All Original 1860s Scholz and Janetzky American Travel Watercolor Set still bak how much fun to buildYou can tell I am enamored with early watercolor sets, American ones especially, and this seems to be a rare one, distributed by Scholz and Janetzky, Philadelphia, featuring paints produced by George Osbourne, the leading maker of American watercolors at the time, also of Philadelphia. Founded in 1856 by Julius Scholz and Charles Janentzky, by 1876 the company had changed their name to Janentzky & Co, so these date to the 1860s or so, an early