From The Queen Breeder, 1921 Postmarked Cover, Bellevue Ohio brushes box Bone had a great line

Bone had a great line and terrific sense of humor--which this pen and ink drawing animating a Victorian wicker reclining chair cut from an old catalog wonderfully exemplifies

This one veers toward complete abstraction—just a very soft sky of pink giving way to light blue

and the raised sword against flag of the soldier below (who also looks to me quite like a French revolutionary

this one has a wonderfully warm patina

Mounted to a black painted solid wood board

From The Queen Breeder, 1921 Postmarked Cover, Bellevue Ohio brushes box Bone had a great lineI am not sure if this envelope once contained a queen bee in a small queen bee box or just some correspondence, but what en envelop! A little research seems to indicate that H. G Quirin was at it breeding queens for quite a long time, with a notation (of an advertisement in a bee keeping journal) as early as 1861, but with this envelop postmarked 1921! (I think perhaps the the former notation is incorrect, but who knows?) The envelop itself looks c.