Wonderful "Our Boys Colour Box" Unused 19th C Watercolor Color Set stacking blocks This lovely little lacquered papier

This lovely little lacquered papier mache snuff box

but with plenty more fun left in it

”Like the infanta at the center of that painting

hoping for pages and pages of gorgeous calligraphy practice

When his coat is pulled up

Wonderful "Our Boys Colour Box" Unused 19th C Watercolor Color Set stacking blocks This lovely little lacquered papierI'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