Box Full of Butterfly Wings--Lovely Victorian Case of Glass Specimen Slides simple This is really a wonderful

This is really a wonderful box

Since falling in love with a large trivet made of matchsticks at an estate sale in Kansas City

Missing bits of wood

I've found none for Caspar Merritt

Early 20th c I believe

Box Full of Butterfly Wings--Lovely Victorian Case of Glass Specimen Slides simple This is really a wonderfulA 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