Box Full of Butterfly Wings--Lovely Victorian Case of Glass Specimen Slides toy doll in significant part due just

in significant part due just to the looks of it

with lovely turned details on the lid and foot

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

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

Ink on paper

Box Full of Butterfly Wings--Lovely Victorian Case of Glass Specimen Slides toy doll in significant part due justA 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