SOLD Helen with her Rose, Early 19th Century B. Bramell Hand-colored Block Print, Original Frame and Glass cyan feeling perhaps like workers' housing

feeling perhaps like workers' housing

from the heads of Player's cigarette sailors

shorthand was/is an abbreviated symbolic writing method that was developed as a means of increasing speed and brevity in writing

I believe this small brass gauge would have been used for measuring pin drill (pin vise) bits

It'd put one excellent thing atop it and never notice that corner again

SOLD Helen with her Rose, Early 19th Century B. Bramell Hand-colored Block Print, Original Frame and Glass cyan feeling perhaps like workers' housingI purchased this from the same dealer as the 19th century "Walk on roses" glass encased forget me not also listed today, and might guess they came from the same collection surely someone who loved their flowers, and maybe she was a Rose herself! My photos don't do justice to the frame, especially, here, but this is very much about the whole package: hand colored print and frame and original thin blown glass in the frame, too and it is a strikingly