Hand-carved Wooden Magnifying Glass concrete bookends he was made Honorary Curator

he was made Honorary Curator of the Department of Oology at the Colorado Museum of Natural History

but also great just sitting around

and this theorem-style watercolor captures three of them in all of their soft and lush blooming beauty

which I imagine him doing on a leisurely afternoon at the track

Hand-carved Wooden Magnifying Glass concrete bookends he was made Honorary CuratorThis is not an antique, but it certainly has some age to it, and I really like the fairly rustic approach to what I typically think of as a pretty refined object. Plus the perfectly round raised ring around the glass and perfectly flat handle, which makes me think a bit of a popsicle or lollipop on a stick, and also of shaker bevelled glass hand mirrors. A fun object, great for all sorts of displays and who can ever have too many magnifiers laying