Box Full of Butterfly Wings--Lovely Victorian Case of Glass Specimen Slides simple I especially like the pencil

I especially like the pencil drawn eye on the wooden side of this guy

Two I think is definitely better than one in the case of these ladies leg bottle openers I''d say

I've found none for Caspar Merritt

I assume they are both meant to be cats

Early 20th c I believe

Box Full of Butterfly Wings--Lovely Victorian Case of Glass Specimen Slides simple I especially like the pencilA 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