Bessie Slater's Beautiful 19th Century Ink and Watercolor Botany Chart: Stems, Appendages, Calices antique sewing machine parts case There is no mark on

There is no mark on this one anywhere that I can find but based on the nails and the wood

looking propped perhaps for some fruit picking

with each letter of each name carefully carved in capital letters against stippled grounds

this old lovingly homemade three post stacker is about as expressive as it gets

It was acquired by Shermin Williams in 1929

Bessie Slater's Beautiful 19th Century Ink and Watercolor Botany Chart: Stems, Appendages, Calices antique sewing machine parts case There is no mark onThis is one of a series of beautiful antique ink and watercolor charts listed today, all executed long ago by a Bessie Slater (I believe, signed on the back of one of them), for a botany class, I presume. Each one homes in on a different aspect or aspects this one detailing stems (scaly, hairy, etc), appendages (sheath, tendril, etc) and calices (imbricated, double calyx, etc with 30 different sorts described and carefully illustrated in watercolor.