Mid-century Handmade Glass Microscope Slides with Color Pigments antique books even better in person (the

even better in person (the colors are just a bit softer and more luminous than photos convey

which is jet black and crisp

I especially love the curling arcs of the threes

more so on the backs

heading out sledding

Mid-century Handmade Glass Microscope Slides with Color Pigments antique books even better in person (theI'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,