Empire State Grapes, Hand Stenciled Page From c. 1868 Nursery Specimens Salesman Sample Catalog antique paper doll and looks just great sitting

and looks just great sitting on the desk

--so they seem to have lived their whole lives near home

perhaps meant for a name to be engraved inside of it

both pretty minor and there seems no threat of beans falling out

which someone at some point trimmed and glued to a piece of card (not what I would ever do

Empire State Grapes, Hand Stenciled Page From c. 1868 Nursery Specimens Salesman Sample Catalog antique paper doll and looks just great sittingSuch luminous and voluptuous grapes, I do want to eat or drink! them right up. I've handled a few examples (of apples and peaches and pears) of this type before this would have been one page in a salesman sample type horticultural specimen catalogue (unbound, but held together in a large folio case). This is not a lithograph rather, the grapes here were rendered in a manner akin to a theorem watercolor, using multiple, hand cut stencils and