Mid-century Handmade Glass Microscope Slides with Color Pigments little wooden boot The head is true head

The head is true head sized and was made by someone who certainly knew what they were doing

and forget me nots--which

definitely looking ready to stop some doors

The woman on the cup is a version of the Baker logo: a chocolate server

Mid-century Handmade Glass Microscope Slides with Color Pigments little wooden boot The head is true headI'm always looking at glass microscopic slides with hand written labels as I just think they're such pretty and evocative things, but usually I let them go. These, though, won me for also being all about color both in terms of all those blues and greens and yellows of the specimens themselves and for all those beautiful words: cobalt, malachite, verdigris, azurite, ultramarine, cerulean, indigo. How to resist? I believe these date to the 1960s or so,