Antique French Hand-colored Magic Lantern Slides, Set of Ten in Original Box woods areca nut Scandinavian maybe

Scandinavian maybe

suspended from an armature which they could be flipped over and around

Three of the four I found with pretty sorry remnants of their former watercolor kits inside

with some beautiful alphabets (including Greek and Hebrew)

not older than mid-20th c I am pretty sure

Antique French Hand-colored Magic Lantern Slides, Set of Ten in Original Box woods areca nut Scandinavian maybeI 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