Return from the Insect Fair, Very Scarce Clapp and Treat Seeds Trade Card, Hartford CT, 1890s painted metal sign This type of 18th century

This type of 18th century brass box

The hand-painted letters march along a horizontal pencil line

titled "Thicket" (edition of 10) by still-active Boston area artist Peter Wagner and it resonated to me in all sorts of ways--and the more time I spend with it the more I love it

just right to my eye that only the feet of two figures made it into the Polaroid

Return from the Insect Fair, Very Scarce Clapp and Treat Seeds Trade Card, Hartford CT, 1890s painted metal sign This type of 18th centurySuch a fun one, and trade cards for vegetable seeds are my favorite. Especially a giant beet on wheels pulled (punningly) by a beetle! (Clever.) I can't find another like it out there, though have found a few references to Clapp and Treat seeds; I believe this dates to the 1890s or so. 5" x 3", good condition, bright and crisp, with a bit of stain visible along left edge and some old glue staining (not sticky) around the edges of the reverse side.