A c.1900 Victorian Watercolour Paint Box; ‘The Gainsborough Gold Colour Box’ antiques American scientist and statesman Benjamin

American scientist and statesman Benjamin Franklin also died in 1790

or buffalo

often cards of this type were over complicated and thus lose their visual impact

leathery leaves and small white flowers

There are two areas of more recent restoration at the base of one of the arms where it meets the seat

A c.1900 Victorian Watercolour Paint Box; ‘The Gainsborough Gold Colour Box’ antiques American scientist and statesman BenjaminOrigin: English Period: Late Victorian Edwardian Provenance: Unknown Date: c. 1890 1910 Width: 8. 25 inches The turn of the century rectangular tin `Gainsborough Gold Colour Box` watercolour paint box, enclosing twelve glass tubes of differing shades of gold coloured paint, together with two small associated(?) mixing pans. The box is in fairly good order with expected pitting and wear to the painted tin surface and eleven of the twelve phials are