Box Full of Butterfly Wings--Lovely Victorian Case of Glass Specimen Slides toy doll which I really like

which I really like

I would guess it was the original  drawing after which an engraving were then made for a zoological volume

) I think the soft green and brown and blue of the painted background are just right here

in significant part due just to the looks of it

seated (disarmed) posture suggesting she may soon be the victim either of them or the murderer on the phone

Box Full of Butterfly Wings--Lovely Victorian Case of Glass Specimen Slides toy doll which I really likeA total delight to find this at Brimfield a quintessentially Victorian set of 36 glass microscope slides, still laid in their original wooden trays, which stack perfectly to fill their perfectly preserved dovetailed box, which latches at the front to hold them all inside. What makes this set especially special, though, is that the vast majority of the slides hold carefully clipped specimens of butterfly wings a case of wonders. I could write a lot