1939 Tipped-In Print Monna Pomona Dante Rossetti Portrait Dress Rose Apple XAN3 XGAB3 Repeater Rifle

Repeater Rifle

This is an original 1942 World War II black and white print ad for the Union Oil Company of California (Unocal)

a product by The Keystone Watch Case Company of Riverside

the Chariclea delphinii

This is an original 1910 black and white print ad for Merrimack Duckling Fleece by Merrimack Manufacturing Company located at 5 Dutton Street

1939 Tipped-In Print Monna Pomona Dante Rossetti Portrait Dress Rose Apple XAN3 XGAB3 Repeater RifleThis is an original 1939 tipped in color print of Dante Rossetti's Monna Pomona, an intriguing piece from the Pre Raphaelite movement. In ancient Roman mythology, Pomona was a wood nymph and goddess of gardens and orchards (etymologically, her name is derived from the Latin pomum, which refers to orchard fruit). That may be why the woman in this piece is lightly clasping an apple in one hand and holds roses in her lap. Why she is toying with her