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Medium Keep It Boxes 
20 notecards
21 envelopes
Cards measure 4 3/8" x 5 3/4"
Lid with magnetic closure
$14.00

GA-4702 Birds of the Season $14.00
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Birds on branches from each season—these refined paintings are from the rare book 100 Birds and Flowers in Japan in the collection of the American Museum of Natural History. Pair this Keep It Box with a Japanese Blossoms WriteOn! Journal for an elegant gift set.

  • 20 4-3/8 x 5-3/4" cards, 21 envelopes
  • Sturdy box with hinged lid and magnetic closure
  • 4 images
GA-5563 White Flowers  $14.00
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Galison's White Flowers Keep It Box makes a wonderful gift. The box itself reproduces Isaac Sprague's Magnolia grandiflora, created sometime between 1849 and 1859 to accompany a report on the forest trees of North America by Asa Gray. The design is carried through to the inside of the box repeats the design, and the cards are printed with metallic ink.

The set includes 5 cards each of the following 4 images, all courtesy of the Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation at Carnegie Mellon University:
  • The Magnolia grandiflora (cover image)
  • Anemone vitifolia by B. Maund and J.S. Henslow from The Botanist, London, 1838-1846
  • Lorenzo Berlese’s Camellia gallica alba from Iconographie du Genre Camellia, Paris, 1841-1843
  • Pierre Joseph Redoute’s Tuberuse, Tuberosa from Choix des Plus Belles Fleurs, Paris, 1829

 

GA-5609 Georgia O'Keefe White Flowers $14.00

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Enjoy closeups of two of Georgia O´Keeffe´s paintings of white flowers: Jimson Weed, 1932, and Cala Lily Turned Away, 1923. Both paintings are in the Georgia O´Keeffe Museum in Sante Fe, New Mexico. Ten cards of each image.
  • 20 4-3/8 x 5-3/4" cards, 21 envelopes
  • Sturdy box with hinged lid and magnetic closure
  • 2 images

 

   
GA-5570 Mandarin Bloom $14.00
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The decorative box of Galison's Mandarin Bloom Keep It Boxnotecards has a striking design of matte silver on navy blue with a silver box lining. It holds 5 each of 4 cards with designs of silver flowers against backgrounds of navy, butterscotch, red, and green.

The patterns are borrowed from textile patterns from a 10-volume set of rare books, Shokubun ruisan , (volumes devoted to the art of weaving) compiled by the Imperial Household Museum in Tokyo and issued in 1893. The books are housed in the Art Reference Library of the Brooklyn Museum.

A Chinese proverb is quoted on the box: “Flowers leave a part of their fragrance in the hands that bestow them.” Chinese Proverb
  • 20 4-3/8 x 5-3/4" cards, 21 envelopes
  • Sturdy box with hinged lid and magnetic closure
  • 4 images

 

   

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