Antique French Hand-colored Magic Lantern Slides, Set of Ten in Original Box carved house Royer and dated at lower

Royer and dated at lower right

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I love his face

including how to fit long words in dense areas

Antique French Hand-colored Magic Lantern Slides, Set of Ten in Original Box carved house Royer and dated at lowerI 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