Wonderful "Our Boys Colour Box" Unused 19th C Watercolor Color Set tabletop desk with bisque head and hands

with bisque head and hands

and the glass is in very good condition

1962 handwritten in blue pen

" :)  I  especially love the small drawings at the bottom of each page

Wonderful "Our Boys Colour Box" Unused 19th C Watercolor Color Set tabletop desk with bisque head and handsI've searched and searched and can't find another watercolor set quite like this one, or a maker of antique watercolor sets in St. Louis. However, it seems that George Osbourne, one of the few 19th century American makers of artists paint (and deemed as good as the British) produced watercolors embossed with eagles, as these are with the ones I've found dating the 1830s. I would think based on the color litho lid that these came at least a few decades