Antique Magic Lantern Slip Slide, My Own Blue Bell(e) celadon vase I especially love the watercolored

I especially love the watercolored stick pin tethering the stem of the rose at the bottom left corner of the paper in a trompe l’oeil sort of fashion

S long ago

just missing fingers on one hand

it is hard and smooth

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Antique Magic Lantern Slip Slide, My Own Blue Bell(e) celadon vase I especially love the watercoloredI think magic lantern "slip" slides are really fun a very simple early mechanical means of creating a changing image, with the black painted ground of the slide concealing (more of less) a second image that is revealed when the top pane of glass is pulled to the right. And I really love the bright blue bell in this one, which slides out to reveal a pretty blue belle! Closed: 7 3 8" x 4" x 7 16". Good condition, with a bit of paint loss, as documented,