19TH CENTURY ANTIQUE MICROSCOPE SLIDE MOUNTING SPECIMEN

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Well is a real treasure box of late 19th century slide mounters specimens and apparatus. A mahogany box full of specimens in tubes and used pill Boxes.They apparently belonged to a certain Rev. M.B Saunders around 1880-90. I did a quick check on the internet and found he wrote a paper for the Brisol Naturalist Society in 1888, and was probably a member of that society.The pill boxes were all issued in and around Bristol (Avon, England) and one bears his name,which is dated 1887. T are all kinds of wonders in his treasure trove. T are 10 glass phials contaning an assortment of items , I am not at all sure what, I have scanned 5 of the more interesting ones.T are some minerals or crystals ,what seems to be crushed sea shells, and one containing what seems to be a white crab leg or marie animals leg. Cant be sure on any, most are just numbered ,but one bears the identification "Sabina" on it. T are 9 used medicine pill boxes all have which have been re used to store specimens etc. One has a semi dissected spider, another has a kind of honey comb with an interesting notation of were it was collected in October 1897. One contains spare cover slips and another has an assortment of dried sponges. One has a date on it when the pills that were in it as 2nd May 1887.T is also two cork spring clips used to hold down the cover slips until read more

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