The Banham Family Magic Lantern Collection

'The Tiger and the Tub' Seven slides (possibly from set of eight) Single hand-painted glass slides in wooden frames, (7 x 4 x 3/8 inches). Maker u...

'Time and the Four Seasons of Life' Set of five slides for dissolving effect. Single hand-painted glass slides in wooden frames, 7 x 4 1/2 x 3/8 i...

'Views of the Mediterranean' Four slides, probably part of a larger set. Single hand-painted glass slides in wooden frames 7 x 4 x 3/8 inches Made...

'The Village Blacksmith' Group of four slides from different sources. Two single hand-painted slides in wooden frames, two slipping slides in wood...

'The Bottle' Set of eight slides after Cruickshank's series of engravings. Single hand-coloured glass slides in wooden frames, (7 x 4 x 3/8 inche...

'The Bottle' Set of eight slides after Cruickshank's series of engravings. Single hand-coloured glass slides in wooden frames,( 7 x 4 x 3/8 inches...

'The Fairy Glen' Seven slides assembled from different sources Single hand-painted glass slides in wooden frames, with one additional effect slide...

'Abide with Me' Four slides from a larger set. Single hand-painted standard 3 1/4 inch square glass slides, mounted in wooden frames, (6 7/8 x 4 x...

'The Adventures of Robinson Crusoe' Newton & Co., 3 Fleet Street, London Set of four long slides, each composed of four individual images. Four se...

'The Adventures of Robinson Crusoe' Newton & Co., 3 Fleet Street, London Set of four long slides, each composed of four individual images. Four se...

'Aladdin' A group of thirty -three slides from a larger set. Mainly single hand-painted slides in wooden frames, but including several complex mec...

'Winter Sports' Six slides assembled from different sources. Single hand-painted glass slides in wooden frames, various dimensions as shown. Vario...

'The Ascent of Mont Blanc' Eight slides assembled from different sources. Single hand-coloured glass slides in wooden frames, various dimensions a...

Of Franklin Expedition and Polar Interest. Thirty-two slides in original box, probably assembled from several sets on Arctic expeditions including...

'Good Night' Maker unknown (7 x 4 x 3/8 inches)

'Good Night' Maker unknown (7 x 4 1/8 x 3/8 inches)

'Good Night' T.H. McAllister, New York (7 x 4 x 3/8 inches)

'Please Turn up the Lights' W.F. Archer, Liverpool (7 x 4 x 3/8 inches)

'Good Night' Carpenter & Westley (6 7/8 x 3 3/4 x 3/8 inches)

'Good Night' Maker unknown (7 x 4 x 3/8 inches)

A large biunial showman's lantern, maker A Laverne et Cie, Paris, circa 1895. fluted chimney over polished mahogany doors with brass fronts and ...

A mahogany and brass showman's biunial lantern, maker A Franks , Manchester, circa 1880, crossgrained double doors, brass fronts and stages surmo...

A mahogany and brass single lantern, maker W C Hughes, London , circa 1880s, fluted chimney over polished mahogany body with single door to each...

A brass Star dissolving valve, rotation of the long spindle directs oxygen and hydrogen gas supplies to either the top or bottom limelight illumi...

A brass Blow-Through jet. oxygen and hydrogen gas are admitted through sperate inlet tubes and mixed to create a single jet which burns against a...

A Lawson Ether Saturator, A pressurised jet of oxygen passes through a reservoir of liquid ether and is ignited to play a flame onto a lime cylind...

A Limelight Illuminant, maker Mason de la Bonne Presse, Paris No. 1130. A complex mechanism for mixing oxygen and other flammable gas, with heavy...

An Ether Saturator. An improved design of saturator, a pressurised jet of oxygen is passed through a reservoir of liquid ether to become more 'sa...

A Barton's Patent No 8 Limelight Illuminant, maker J. H. Steward, London. Oxygen and hydrogen gas are passed to the burner nozzle through a mahog...

An Incandescent Spirit Lamp, maker W C Hughes, London. 23cm long This unusual apparatus uses a reservoir of methylated spirit, which when vaporize...

An Oxy-Acetylene Jet with Carbon Rod, maker Westminster Engineering Co, London, Patent 9225, London 1910,18cm long, together with an instruction c...

A lacquered brass microscopic projection lens. unsigned, 9cm long

WITHDRAWN LOT A projection lens.

A lacquered brass microscopic projection lens, unsigned , with rack and pinion fine adjust, 10.5cm long.

A lacquered brass projection lens with manual adjusters, unsigned, 16cm long, .

A lacquered brass kaleidoscope projection lens, unsigned. 9.5cm long

A lacquered brass kaleidoscope projection lens maker Newton & Co, London. 21cm long, together with three kaleidoscope slides. An adaptation of Dav...

A pair of brass lime tongs, with fold out piercer, together with a pair of wooden handles lime tongs, a 'Mabor Indestructible Limes' box containi...

A matched pair of late 19th/early 20th century oxygen and hydrogen blow- through jets, unsigned, 27 cm and 30cm long (2)

A lacquered brass 'Improved Oxy-Hydrogen Lime Light Illuminant' , maker Kersham, with plaque as per title, 29cm long

A lacquered brass Incandescent gas burner, for use with town gas, 27.5cm long

A late 19th century trade card of children playing with magic lantern. Publisher unknown, circa 1890s; 11 x 7.5 cm, mounted

A late 19th cebtury French trade card of children playing with magic lantern Paris: Au Bon Marché, circa 1890s; 11 x 7.5 cm, mounted

A late 19th century French rotating trade card of boy showing slides with magic lantern. five different 'slides' shown by rotating wheel on back...

'Lanterne Magique ' After engraving by Michel Poisson, 1774. Publisher unknown 4½ x 7 inches, mounted

After Francesco Magiotto, S'avoiardi colla Lanterna Magica' engraving Venezia: Cavalli, circa 1770s 30 x 38 cm, unmounted

After Victor Bachereau, 'Le singe qui montre le lantern magique ' Paris: 'Magasin Pittoresque', March 1865 15 x 21 cm, unmounted, together with an...

After Louis Wain, 'The Magic Lantern' 5 x 6¼ inches, mounted

After H.G. Hine, 'The Magic Lantern' Cutting from Illustrated London News, 25 December 1858 9 x 7 inches, mounted and framed

After Jean Baptiste Maria Pierre, 'La Lanterne Magique' engraving Paris, 1757 28 x 42 cm, mounted and framed

A Transforming print - 'The Magic Lantern' No. 5 of series Spooner's Protean Views London: William Spooner, c.1840 5¼ x 7½ inches, mounted to allo...

After Paul Gavani, 'La Lantern Magique' monochrome lithograph published by Bertsuts , Paris, blind stamp to lower margin ' Des artistes anciens ...

WITHDRAWN LOT An early 20th century Magic Lantern Playbill 'Professor Wood's sacred concerts and pictorial recitals'Ilkeston, Derbyshire, circa...

WITHDRAWN LOT After Harry Furniss, 'Mr Punch's Magic-Lantern Slides for 1881'Cutting from Punch, 18816¾ x 9 inches, mounted

'Lantern readings original and selected: volume I' (5th edition) Birmingham: Alfred Pumphrey, c.1874, 332pp, pb

'WITHDRAWN LOT Lantern readings'London: Newton & Co., n.d. 36pp, pb

WITHDRAWN LOT 'Walter Tyler's readings for lantern slides: first series'London: Walter Tyler, circa 1890s, 48 +ivpp, pb

WITHDRAWN LOT 'Wood's catalogue of slides, optical lanterns, and dissolving views apparatus: forty-eighth issue'London: E.G. Wood, 1894, 168pp ...

A late Victorian manuscript 'Catalogue of The Selwyn Lantern Slides' dated 1894/95, containing a list of slides , jets and accessories, 'Receive...

'WITHDRAWN LOT Catalogue of apparatus' London: Church Army, c.1922, 38 pp, pb