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

I can't look at this little Minnie Mouse without thinking of the work of the late

and the fragility of the material

Made in Czechoslovakia in the 1920s or so and gorgeously decorated

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

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