Luxuriously Large Lot of Antique Bone Letters in Original Box pastel landscape with plaster walls and tiled

with plaster walls and tiled roof

commenting on the sort of performativity required of the artist himself--and perhaps any human attempting to assert any sort of "talent" in the world

Plus gold paint on the lower halves of each of the three interlocking locks

there is one light surface scratch at lower left tuning diagonal from base of tree to corner

they make me think of bons bons rolled in fancy paper and cinched with bows at either end

Luxuriously Large Lot of Antique Bone Letters in Original Box pastel landscape with plaster walls and tiledYum. I had one set of 19th c. bone letters months ago and have been looking for more since so when I spotted this box on offer from a British seller, filled with 180+ of them, I jumped on it. For me, all of these beautiful letters together feels like total luxury, and also total possibility the potential of every work that exists just sitting there in physical form, waiting to be spelled. These were used to teaching spelling in the 19th c., and I have