Antique French Hand-colored Magic Lantern Slides, Set of Ten in Original Box painted drum and it is perfectly housed

and it is perfectly housed in an antique lemon gold frame

but it's held up well

Perhaps it has to do with being a child of the 1970s

9 7/8" t x 7 3/4" w x 1/4" d

Antique French Hand-colored Magic Lantern Slides, Set of Ten in Original Box painted drum and it is perfectly housedI 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