1942 Carl Lange Stereoscopic Opthomological "Coordinator" Slides - Set 2 hand-painted slides then detailed with with brown

then detailed with with brown painted cap and belt

which allowed for clicking through multiple images on rotating cardboard disks

typically intended as love tokens to be delivered upon return

) It could be easily framed

with a heart shaped leaf (the shape I think is wrong to represent a tobacco leaf) on a long stem

1942 Carl Lange Stereoscopic Opthomological "Coordinator" Slides - Set 2 hand-painted slides then detailed with with brownI was pretty excited to find a box full of these handmade slides at the flea market this weekend a box in which many were rolled up in newspaper from 1945, seemingly untouched since then! What I've learned is that Carl W. Lange Sr. and Jr. , who copyrighted this set of stereoscopic slides in 1942, were father and son opthomologists with a practice near St. Louis and a particular commitment to curing myopia (nearsightedness.) They wrote and travelled