Set of 8 French c. 1900 Microscope Slides with Insect Specimens final sign Terrific patina

Terrific patina

Still very usable and nice hung on the wall

I know very little about decoys

and he can be posed in all sorts of ways on either side of the wooden ladder

There is one small hole in one of his hands/gloves

Set of 8 French c. 1900 Microscope Slides with Insect Specimens final sign Terrific patinaIt seems beautiful glass microscope slides are finding me lately and these antique French ones with handwritten specimen descriptions on lithographed paper labels I think are just so lovely. Silkworm and foot of a caterpillar happily need no translation, and then there appears to be the scale of a sole (fish I assume) and mouth of a ?, and something human! (perhaps your deciphering skills will be better than mine!) All of the specimens are visible