I love finding things like this--and so did the dealer I purchased this lot from, who had kept this lot in his own collection for 30 some years. Included are five German paint blocks for various shades of gold lustre (pale gold, bronze gold, etc), as well as two sealed glass bottle of oil (one of them clove oil) and two glass mixing pots. And then eight folded paper envelopes packed full with pure color pigment. Most appear never to have been opened (the ends are folded into the opposite ends of the paper to form tight little packets) but I carefully opened a few to reveal blue and white and gray, and traces of green and orange show on two others. Each one is full, and the colors are written (in German) on the front of each packet. Oh the beauty and romanticism of art supplies from another era.
Bottles of oil, for reference, measure 2 3/8" t. Envelopes of pigment measure approx 2 1/2" x 2". All full, paint blocks unused, all in very good condition. A bit messy opening the envelopes of pigment--one wants to be prepared when doing so by putting something underneath. Would be beautiful transferred into vials/bottles, but there's also something quite potent just about those folded paper packets of pigment!
