Fantastic 19th C. Homemade Stereoview of Sea Creatures, Related to Louis Figuier Engraving lightening bolt It’s not too often that

It’s not too often that I buy a piece of Asian lacquerware

(The weight and feel make me think wood

which makes it feel all the more like a small modernist sculpture

What appears to be some bleeding as noted

Lanman / Druggists / New York"  and the number 16 embossed on its base I believe dates to several decades later in the 19th c

Fantastic 19th C. Homemade Stereoview of Sea Creatures, Related to Louis Figuier Engraving lightening bolt It’s not too often thatThere are stereoviews and then there are stereoviews this is one of two early albumen photo stereoviews I'm listing this week of the gorgeous and special variety; a different species entirely from the later stereocards with images printed on the card. And this is a curious one, too. The image is very similar to an engraving ("Ideal Scene of the Lias Period with Ichthyosaurus and Plesiosaurus") in French scientist Louis Figuier's 'The World Before the