Set of 8 French c. 1900 Microscope Slides with Insect Specimens paper basket and seems to me quite

and seems to me quite likely original to it

Easy to frame just showing the drawing--quite a striking little piece

Overall beautiful antique condition

reiterated with hand-written price stickers on the back

and with this wonderful very thin strip of what I believe is cut paper snaking down the front of the bodice

Set of 8 French c. 1900 Microscope Slides with Insect Specimens paper basket and seems to me quiteIt seems beautiful glass microscope slides are finding me lately and these antique French ones with handwritten specimen descriptions on lithographed paper labels I think are just so lovely. Silkworm and foot of a caterpillar happily need no translation, and then there appears to be the scale of a sole (fish I assume) and mouth of a ?, and something human! (perhaps your deciphering skills will be better than mine!) All of the specimens are visible