Yellow Bearded Pale Iris, Delicate Antique Watercolor great present and heartened by a sense

and heartened by a sense of tides turning toward a more optimistic vision for the future

California

One sees a fair number of bone dominoes sets described as "Civil War era" which are not

Fold fold lines along the bottom fourth the paper and some small scattered stains

Both the shapes and the placement of those dots is wonderfully irregular

Yellow Bearded Pale Iris, Delicate Antique Watercolor great present and heartened by a senseI will never tire of antique folk art watercolors of flowers largely painted by women and girls and a lot about close looking, and as was explicitly noted on a watercolor of an iris by a different maker that I listed last week, in many cases these were of flowers women "raised" themselves several points of pride at once. I really like the attention paid to the petals and "beard" on this single bloom, treated a bit like a scientific specimen! Paper 7 5