Magic Lantern Antique Glass Slides With Reverse Painted Caricatures, Set of 4 Art Deco pitcher crownlike hat with long flaps

crownlike hat with long flaps

cut and punctured by hand

Part II offers a detailed discussion of lettering: the qualities of good lettering

delineated rib cages

they look just fabulous on the kitchen counter

Magic Lantern Antique Glass Slides With Reverse Painted Caricatures, Set of 4 Art Deco pitcher crownlike hat with long flapsWhat a cast of characters! I've come across old Magic Lantern slides before, but none as wonderful as these, charmingly caricaturing a variety of couples, while imparting each figure with fantastic personality! Reverse painted on glass (I believe etched in black first, then with all the color painted by hand) in a terrifically bright palette of pinks, yellows, greens and blues, they really pop against the unpainted (clear) glass backgrounds, framed