Antique French Hand-colored Magic Lantern Slides, Set of Ten in Original Box woods areca nut Some of my very favorite

Some of my very favorite things hanging on my walls are textiles

Three of the four I found with pretty sorry remnants of their former watercolor kits inside

I had never seen one of these planters before

I especially love his very pink cheeks

Antique French Hand-colored Magic Lantern Slides, Set of Ten in Original Box woods areca nut Some of my very favoriteI pass by most old magic lantern slides, but these are special c. 1880s or so I believe, French, and with all of the color hand painted. Quite a cast of characters (caricatures) and situations represented my favorite being a man with pointy beard holding "bettrave triumphant" (triumphant beet!) and a "gourmand" tethered to a pillar to be held off from the table by a satyr who is about to feast! Many seem to relate to devilish behavior, with a portrait