One boxed set of watercolor paints entitled The Best Water Colors: Transparent & Indelible Colors, for tinting photographs, lantern slides, drawings, school maps, magazines, photogravures, silk, satin, leather, and pyrography, (or burnt wood) etc., manufactured by Favor, Ruhl & Co., New York, Boston, and Chicago, ca. 1900. The set is comprised of 12 small, round cakes of watercolor paint within wooden tubs, affixed to the base of the box. "Best Transparent Water Colors" is printed in the center of the ring of paints. Directions for use are printed on a sheet which is mounted to the underside of the top lid. The cover of the lid is illustrated with a chromolithograph image of a girl who is painting in watercolor.
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