Horse Racers at Saint-Cloud, Antique French Watercolor by Pierre Albert Leroux antique boy scouts collectible The box is in excellent

The box is in excellent overall condition

As a stand alone piece I think it's pretty terrific

I am uncertain as to whether it is bronze cast or iron cast with bronze finish (it is quite heavy for its size)

They are made of a mix of construction paper

or maybe it housed pages of it at the printing house

Horse Racers at Saint-Cloud, Antique French Watercolor by Pierre Albert Leroux antique boy scouts collectible The box is in excellentMy new favorite antique watercolor. I do seem to be having a bit of a horse moment, with several drawings and paintings of horses currently in the shop, but here it is the whole scene (set at the Saint Cloud race track just outside of Paris), and especially the faces of the riders, that put it over the top. The manner of the painting is also reminding me of Henry Darger, so I am projecting vivid interior lives onto these equestrians, and their horses