Small Fraktur Watercolor and Hand-colored Engravings c. 1840s tiger toy The gilding obviously is well

The gilding obviously is well worn but otherwise in very good condition

and surrounded by a decorative pattern of tiny brass nails

but his terrific leather mittens remain in great shape

before-- but I'm very happy to have made the discovery

just adding to its aura I think

Small Fraktur Watercolor and Hand-colored Engravings c. 1840s tiger toy The gilding obviously is wellI couldn't resist this little Fraktur watercolor of bowl with fruit and flowers, inscribed as a gift to a Miss Charlotte Wetherbee from her instructress, Mary M. R., who then writes: "Oh may your downward path be be fair, may you the Saviour's image bear." I'm not entirely sure the nature of instruction, but found the fraktur along with three pages from Flora's Lexicon, An Interpretation of the Language and Sentiment of Flowers, dated 1839, which