Wooden Magnifying Glass For Kids

Seven A5 sheets of cyanotype paper. Lay a leaf or a feather on one, leave it in the sun, rinse it, and the image develops. Seven sheets is seven prints — no refills in the box. Ages 3+.

A screw-tightened wooden press for flowers and leaves, 8.5 in across, with Moulin Roty's botanical illustrations on the lid. Pressing takes weeks, not an afternoon.

A real chafer beetle in hand-polished resin, wing cases still green and shifting in the light. 73 x 41 x 20 mm — the smallest of the insect studies.

Eleven things in one block — egg, larva, pupa; queen, worker, drone; comb in two forms, a queen cell, beeswax and honey. Real specimens set by hand, like an old teaching cabinet. 5.5 in wide, the largest of the studies.

A china aster pressed full-faced in resin, petal over petal. About 3 in square.

A real swallowtail, wings open in clear resin, the scales still holding their cream and dark banding. About 3 in square. No two wing patterns match.