Scarlet Runner, Pith of Elder, Buffalo Horn: Beautiful Set of 18 Victorian Handmade Slides Payson's On the underside of the

On the underside of the lid is written the name of their onetime owner Shirley Mae Barron and the year 1958

but would have been close to the intersection of Saratoga and Meridian

With a beautifully carved face

A charmer of an old folk art limberjack or dancing doll

and I've learned the pinks are in fact pretty rare

Scarlet Runner, Pith of Elder, Buffalo Horn: Beautiful Set of 18 Victorian Handmade Slides Payson's On the underside of theI'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