Box Full of Butterfly Wings--Lovely Victorian Case of Glass Specimen Slides vin tage Mexican silver perfume bottle with two windows for framing

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A number of months ago I found a lovely vintage glass pitcher with hand-painted bluebirds

I keep scooping up these antique stencil wheels whenever I come across them  as I think they're just fantastic things

masses and spectacle

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Box Full of Butterfly Wings--Lovely Victorian Case of Glass Specimen Slides vin tage Mexican silver perfume bottle with two windows for framingA total delight to find this at Brimfield a quintessentially Victorian set of 36 glass microscope slides, still laid in their original wooden trays, which stack perfectly to fill their perfectly preserved dovetailed box, which latches at the front to hold them all inside. What makes this set especially special, though, is that the vast majority of the slides hold carefully clipped specimens of butterfly wings a case of wonders. I could write a lot