Antique French Hand-colored Magic Lantern Slides, Set of Ten in Original Box carved house And then this great hand

And then this great hand at the very center

Please indicate at checkout which you would like--though I suggest buying the pair

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Royer and dated at lower right

Antique French Hand-colored Magic Lantern Slides, Set of Ten in Original Box carved house And then this great handI 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