Antique French Hand-colored Magic Lantern Slides, Set of Ten in Original Box woods areca nut Scandinavian maybe

Scandinavian maybe

suspended from an armature which they could be flipped over and around

I had never seen one of these planters before

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

I especially love his very pink cheeks

Antique French Hand-colored Magic Lantern Slides, Set of Ten in Original Box woods areca nut Scandinavian maybeI 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