Set of 8 French c. 1900 Microscope Slides with Insect Specimens pocket toy with hand-stamped (impressed) numbers in

with hand-stamped (impressed) numbers in different increments on each side

painted in 1910 and mailed from Beach Lake (Pennsylvania I believe) to Brooklyn

and a feeling of this rose as a very living thing

And many a sweet thing said

Set of 8 French c. 1900 Microscope Slides with Insect Specimens pocket toy with hand-stamped (impressed) numbers inIt 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