I saw a load of these for sale earlier this year, at a flea market in a tiny village in France. Stereoscopes come up surprisingly frequently, and they’re usuall

I saw a load of these for sale earlier this year, at a flea market in a tiny village in France. Stereoscopes come up surprisingly frequently, and they’re usually set up with 19th c. pastoralism or pornography. This one was set up with these “devil cards”, although I didn’t know them for what they were, and wasn’t prepared to drop €800 for the (probably incomplete) set. Ended up buying a box of collodion plates from Indochina in the 1870s instead, which I’ve scanned and sent to Getty for their archives. It scares me how much history is slipping through our fingers, how much is already lost.