Wilson's Albany Strawberries, 19th Century Hand-Stenciled and Hand-painted Horticultural Salesman Sample Print save the wood I found these both digging

I found these both digging through one old box

Like three separate choreographed vignettes sharing the same frame: young women in foreground (with great faces

with precisely carved points around the perimeter of each dial making it look like a sun

Quite a nice vintage watercolor rendering of side-winding crab I think

and dated 1922 in pencil on front left bottom corner

Wilson's Albany Strawberries, 19th Century Hand-Stenciled and Hand-painted Horticultural Salesman Sample Print save the wood I found these both diggingJust in time for strawberry season, and a very juicy looking bunch! I've had a few examples of this sort before (including some Empire State grapes listed last week) created, by hand, using stencils and watercolor, for a salesman sample type horticultural specimen catalogue. The way the leaves were done here is typical of these, but the red of the berries themselves here is unusually thick and lush just perfect for rendering strawberries. With ink