Champion Quince, Hand Stenciled Page From c. 1868 Nursery Specimens Salesman Sample Catalog aniamls so perhaps it was meant

so perhaps it was meant to press a wax seal

with the paint slightly bolder on one side

out of a huge pile at a shop in NH

At first I imagined "Our Dazzler" as a fluffy little show dog or exotic cat

A charmer of a rooster I think

Champion Quince, Hand Stenciled Page From c. 1868 Nursery Specimens Salesman Sample Catalog aniamls so perhaps it was meantA radiant Champion Quince, glowing like sunshine. I've handled a few examples (of apples and peaches and pears) of this type before this would have been one page in a salesman sample type horticultural specimen catalogue (unbound, but held together in a large folio case). This is not a lithograph rather, the quince here was rendered in a manner akin to a theorem watercolor, using multiple, hand cut stencils and meticulously applied layers of