Hand-carved Wooden Magnifying Glass concrete bookends it is in excellent condition

it is in excellent condition

and this theorem-style watercolor captures three of them in all of their soft and lush blooming beauty

he was made Honorary Curator of the Department of Oology at the Colorado Museum of Natural History

I know from someone more expert that me that the watermark on the top left of the lined paper on which it is drawn dates it to the 1860s or so

Hand-carved Wooden Magnifying Glass concrete bookends it is in excellent conditionThis is not an antique, but it certainly has some age to it, and I really like the fairly rustic approach to what I typically think of as a pretty refined object. Plus the perfectly round raised ring around the glass and perfectly flat handle, which makes me think a bit of a popsicle or lollipop on a stick, and also of shaker bevelled glass hand mirrors. A fun object, great for all sorts of displays and who can ever have too many magnifiers laying