Botanical Pencil Drawing by Hiram Campbell Merrill, 1909 souvenir paperweight but very good overall condition

but very good overall condition with a warm great patina

I love the shape of ginger jars generally

it is plenty large to be useful holding all sorts of things

and I love really it that way

and there are a handful of broken stitches around the edge of the lid--all as documented

Botanical Pencil Drawing by Hiram Campbell Merrill, 1909 souvenir paperweight but very good overall conditionA listed artist, Hiram Campbell Merrill (1866 1958) was a Boston born painter and engraver, who in addition to pursuing his own art worked for Harpers magazine in New York. This drawing was made on a trip to Brittany in 1909, during which he made studies that provided material for many later paintings and engravings. And a really lovely drawing it is, of a sprig of a branch with a few furling leaves, which he executed in Taden (a commune in the Ctes