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

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

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

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

To my eye just completely fabulous

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