From The Queen Breeder, 1921 Postmarked Cover, Bellevue Ohio brushes box 15 1/4" x 11 1/16"

15 1/4" x 11 1/16" and in very good condition

all of which enhances the sense that this was crafted with mystical aspirations

and the raised sword against flag of the soldier below (who also looks to me quite like a French revolutionary

Bone had a great line and terrific sense of humor--which this pen and ink drawing animating a Victorian wicker reclining chair cut from an old catalog wonderfully exemplifies

This one veers toward complete abstraction—just a very soft sky of pink giving way to light blue

From The Queen Breeder, 1921 Postmarked Cover, Bellevue Ohio brushes box 15 1/4" x 11 1/16"I am not sure if this envelope once contained a queen bee in a small queen bee box or just some correspondence, but what en envelop! A little research seems to indicate that H. G Quirin was at it breeding queens for quite a long time, with a notation (of an advertisement in a bee keeping journal) as early as 1861, but with this envelop postmarked 1921! (I think perhaps the the former notation is incorrect, but who knows?) The envelop itself looks c.