Magic Lantern Antique Glass Slides With Reverse Painted Caricatures, Set of 4 colored rock painting making it easy to calculate

making it easy to calculate on the go

the other close lipped

It was purchased from the estate of an architect and architectural historian in Kansas City

It has a very minor nick on the edge of the bowl of the spoon

25" long x 1

Magic Lantern Antique Glass Slides With Reverse Painted Caricatures, Set of 4 colored rock painting making it easy to calculateWhat a cast of characters! I've come across old Magic Lantern slides before, but none as wonderful as these, charmingly caricaturing a variety of couples, while imparting each figure with fantastic personality! Reverse painted on glass (I believe etched in black first, then with all the color painted by hand) in a terrifically bright palette of pinks, yellows, greens and blues, they really pop against the unpainted (clear) glass backgrounds, framed