With a beautifully carved face
On the underside of the lid is written the name of their onetime owner Shirley Mae Barron and the year 1958
with a few minor dings and paint loss here and there
a member of the Committee of the Irish Exhibition of Living Art and a member of the Royal Hibernian Academy
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 With a beautifully carved faceI'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