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Magic Lantern – complete with slides – Original Box – 1908

Product #T396C
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Magic lanterns are an early equivalent of today’s slide projectors, with a few important differences.  First, magic lanterns used fire instead of electric bulbs to illuminate the slides.  A second difference was the shape of the slides.  Today’s slides are often made of lightweight, thin plastic or glass, and come in single frames.  Magic lantern slides came in strips of large, bulky pieces of glass held together with metal or wood.  They often contained mechanical features that allowed limited movement of one or more slides within the projector, a feature no longer found on modern slide projectors.  Lastly, many magic lanterns could display images of greater complexity than today’s slide projectors.
 
 
This latern is in very good condtion, the lamp has a duplex double burner. The mirror reflector is in great condtion, the doors of the body of the cabinet all work nice and the lens are all in good shape. Measures 18″ height to top of chimney, 11″ to front of lens and 5 1/2″ wide. On the side door there is a brass label that reads, Gloria E.P. (Ernst Plank)  there is another label that reads Germany. On the partial label on the wood dovetail box reads Laterna Magica. The box measures 13 1/2 x 13″ x  7″.  There are several paper tickets tha were made to invite your friends to the show! 
 
There are a complete set of 12 number glass slides that measure 8 3/4″ x 2 3/4″.
There is one Chromatrope Magic Lantern Mechanical Slide  – Consists of two revolving glass discs, rotating in opposite directions. Both glass discs are 2″ diameter, The discs are held together by a wide brass rim and are rotated through a wooden handle connected to a steel pinion with toothed-end. The whole is assembled on a wooden frame 5″ x 2 3/4″. The glass discs are painted in blue, red, yellow and black arcs and their rotation produces a dazzling kaleidoscopic effect.
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