Scarlet Runner, Pith of Elder, Buffalo Horn: Beautiful Set of 18 Victorian Handmade Slides Payson's To my eye just completely

To my eye just completely fabulous

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

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

a member of the Committee of the Irish Exhibition of Living Art and a member of the Royal Hibernian Academy

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

Scarlet Runner, Pith of Elder, Buffalo Horn: Beautiful Set of 18 Victorian Handmade Slides Payson's To my eye just completelyI'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