Very Last of the Old Birdlover's Watercolors: White-Wiged (sic) Scoter fifteen puzzle Certainly this piece dates to

Certainly this piece dates to the 19th century

and will be spectacular framed up

The backs read: "Importe D'Autriche" (imported from Austria) "VB Lyon" and "Dessin-Depose en France" (designed in France)

with the yellow enameled triangle perhaps pointing to where one would lay a cigarette

toys and much beyond

Very Last of the Old Birdlover's Watercolors: White-Wiged (sic) Scoter fifteen puzzle Certainly this piece dates toTruly the very last few today from a great bunch of old naive watercolor of birds done by someone long ago who was quite serious about his birds! Each and every one of them a charmer I think, this one portraying a White Wiged (meant to say White Winged) Scoter, a sea duck. I really love the sort of crudeness of this one relative to some of the others, and of course the misspelled attribution, written first in graphite and then watercolored over in