Antique "Boys Own Paint Box" Toy Watercolor Set wooden nesting boxes and darning samplers

and darning samplers

but here they are

but with just the right amount of detailing for the seams

They were created from full sized glass soda bottles--one Sun Crest Orange Soda

located at at 233 Broadway in lower Manhattan

Antique "Boys Own Paint Box" Toy Watercolor Set wooden nesting boxes and darning samplersI'm always on the hunt for rare antique watercolor sets, and, as a lover of miniature things, seem to have a special knack for finding what would be called "toy" watercolor sets, with extra small watercolor blocks. Though there is no maker's mark on this set but It seems to me it must have been made in Germany for the English American market. The paint blocks show crowns on one side and the other side is embossed ""Feine Malerfabre," meaning fine