Mid-century Handmade Glass Microscope Slides with Color Pigments veiled lady with book 19 1/16” x 9 3/4”

19 1/16” x 9 3/4” x 1/2” and in great condition

and make for a wonderful study of variations on a form

I'm looking especially for stools that would make great pedestals for arranging things atop

allowing the propeller to turn

One of my favorite things ever

Mid-century Handmade Glass Microscope Slides with Color Pigments veiled lady with book 19 1/16” x 9 3/4”I'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,