Bessie Slater's Beautiful 19th Century Ink and Watercolor Botany Chart: Leaves tire repair tin with a brass latch that

with a brass latch that holds the top half of the writing surface closed

) And through the creamy white paint of this body one can see some of printed text on the wood

waiting and thinking

and the whole thing is quite a pleasure to use

In great condition and truly charming

Bessie Slater's Beautiful 19th Century Ink and Watercolor Botany Chart: Leaves tire repair tin with a brass latch thatThis is one of a series of beautiful antique ink and watercolor charts listed today, all executed long ago by a Bessie Slater (I believe, signed on the back of one of them), for a botany class, I presume. Each one homes in on a different aspect this one the structures of leaves with twenty different sorts described and carefully illustrated in watercolor (undulate, peltate, bipinnate, etc.) More than ever these days, when delight in the natural world