Scarlet Runner, Pith of Elder, Buffalo Horn: Beautiful Set of 18 Victorian Handmade Slides Payson's and must say it's pretty

and must say it's pretty fun to arrange and photograph in groupings--with these eggs and bacon and potatoes being perhaps my favorite of all

The shape of the tower of greens and flowers keeps making me think of partridges in pear trees

With a beautifully carved face

with a few minor dings and paint loss here and there

To my eye just completely fabulous

Scarlet Runner, Pith of Elder, Buffalo Horn: Beautiful Set of 18 Victorian Handmade Slides Payson's and must say it's prettyI'll never tire of looking at Victorian era glass microscope slides of all sorts of tiny specimens, and these, between their handwritten labels, plaid borders and backings, and very visible, beautiful contents, are I think especially good. Such excellent, evocative language "Pith of Elder", "Leaf of Scarlet Runner" and then bits of fur from a Jenet [Genet] cat, back of a deer, and White Coat seal. I also really love the how the glass cutouts were