Scarlet Runner, Pith of Elder, Buffalo Horn: Beautiful Set of 18 Victorian Handmade Slides Payson's but would have been close

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

A charmer of an old folk art limberjack or dancing doll

I take him for a runner--and this photo makes me think of the loneliness of a long distance one

With a beautifully carved face

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

Scarlet Runner, Pith of Elder, Buffalo Horn: Beautiful Set of 18 Victorian Handmade Slides Payson's but would have been closeI'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