Box Full of Butterfly Wings--Lovely Victorian Case of Glass Specimen Slides simple with "May Lizzie's Maples" written

with "May Lizzie's Maples" written in pencil on the back

This is really a wonderful box

Missing bits of wood

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

Box Full of Butterfly Wings--Lovely Victorian Case of Glass Specimen Slides simple with "May Lizzie's Maples" writtenA 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