Scanned Strings

I bought a new scanner today and while these aren't the most perfect of scans, it's nice to have a machine that halfway does the trick. My last one had crapped out completely. These are images of guitar and mandolin strings and packaging from Germany. In English, but from Germany. And old. I recently bought a bunch of thick old glass jars full of strings and these are what I found inside. This is the stuff that completely freaks me out:





p.s. - I realize I could probably get better images from a camera, but there's something about watching that weird white light pass across the glass that forced me to scan these instead of snap pictures.