🧵 (3/3) Young girl as the Queen of Hearts holds a tray of tarts (pre 1896) Artist: Unknown [Source: British Museum]

#PlayingCard #Heart #ChromoLithograph #Illustration #et

A fairly typical before and after. Most of it is done in Photoshop and relies heavily on algorithmic delete + fill + duplication ("healing"), and layer masking tools. Apart from a thorough dusting there was no physical restoration on this; the water damage you see in the original had made that part of the paper (and ink) very fragile.

_Mayflower_ magazine, September 1891

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2/2 _Childs' Fall Catalogue of Bulbs, Plants and Seeds 1897_, Outside Front Cover (NB misregistration error). 'Globe de Rigaud' seems to have disappeared and was prob one of the diseased purples that were so popular. Remarkably, all the others still seem to be in cultivation - 'Silver Standard' is quite gorgeous.

#garden #gardening #flowers #horticulture #antique #vintage #chromolithograph #tulip #tulipa

1/2 Doing a bit of scanning/retouching today. @karmaso this may be relevant to your interests: _Mayflower_ mag, 1894-09, Pl 50, Bybloom and Bizard Tulips. I can't find info on these tulips < 100 y o, and they appear to be streaked and flamed consistent with Tulip Break Disease, so I'm thinking the disease did its thing and weakend the strains to extinction.

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Alneer Brothers #1902 Seed and Plant Catalogue, outside front cover

Charles G & Alfred A #Alneer carried on a very successful #seed and #nursery mail-order business at 116 Kishwaukee Street, #Rockford, #Illinois, #USA from 1883 through the 1940s, at which time Alneer merged with Buckbee Seeds, Shumway Seeds, and Condon Brothers Seeds (all in Rockford) to form Condon-Shumway seeds.

#Chromolithograph #chromolith #antique #vintage
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