Antique French Hand-colored Magic Lantern Slides, Set of Ten in Original Box woods areca nut with some beautiful alphabets (including

with some beautiful alphabets (including Greek and Hebrew)

I especially love his very pink cheeks

the wire holds the propeller tight to the mounting piece

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

Antique French Hand-colored Magic Lantern Slides, Set of Ten in Original Box woods areca nut with some beautiful alphabets (includingI 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