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Click here to subscribeArthur E Morton Autochrome ‘Science of Colour Photography’ Magic Lantern Lecture Set, Autochrome - title slide, his field camera set up for Autochrome reproduction and the ‘Morton Diamond Screen’, with technical descriptive slides (37), Paget (3) and other technical slides (16), G (59), in original cabinet drawer, circa 1912
A Carpenter & Westley Steam Frigate in harbour titled ‘Alexandria’ hand-painted mahogany-mounted Magic Lantern Dissolve Set, paddle-driven Royal Navy vessel, probably in Alexandria harbour, lever/slipper double action with bobbing jolly boat and pinnace and rack/lever double-action steam rising from ship’s funnel and moonrise, both with ink titles, G, some repair to one slide, wooden slips added to tops (2)
Carpenter & Westley mahogany-mounted hand-painted Slipper Magic Lantern Slides, complex brass mechanicals - seven geared concentric rings to demonstrate solar system, earth’s orbit with signs of the Zodiac, earth’s orbit with lunar orbit and solar flare (4) and periphery-drive racks (6), F-G, some labels missing (10), in wooden box
A Day Long Mahogany-Mounted Astronomical Static Hand-Painted Magic Lantern Slide Set, each slide with two to four images, with one lunar eclipse slipper slide, each slide and image with contemporary ink numbering, in wooden box, slides and box stamped ‘Day 37 Poultry’, each 300mm x 75mm, G, box lid missing (12)
A Mahogany-Mounted W C Hughes Exeter Theatre Royal Fire 1887 Hand-Coloured Magic Lantern Slide Dissolve Set, static - theatre exterior at night, theatre interior with smoke, ablaze at night, steam fire pump in foreground and shell in daytime, rackwork/slipper of flames and smoke, slipper end broken and rackwork of billowing smoke, G (6)
Carpenter & Westley mahogany-mounted hand-coloured ‘Moveable Astronomical Sliders’ Rack Magic Lantern Slides, single -slipper ‘Greenwich Pensioner’ - elderly comic sailor in tricorn hat with three different expressions and double-slipper ‘Growing Nose’ - long-haired man with moving eyes and lengthening nose, G (2)
Gabriel Grub Story Set Magic Lantern Slides, various slide types - hand-coloured - panoramic slipper of Grub walking past nightime snowbound house and church, descent through churchyard into goblin’s cavern, with 3½in. sq. coloured photographically-derived slides, five in mahogany mounts (18), G, one broken, P, with transparency copy (20)
A fine W C Hughes mahogany and lacquered brass Pamphengos Double-Extension Magic Lantern, with massive brass lens and lantern body with elaborate moulding, chamfered corners, carved panel of floral decoration below lens, manual brass vertical dissolve and Pamphengos Patent four-wick paraffin illuminant, 680mm long, circa 1880, G, two plinth rails and lens cover knob missing
Isaac Knott founded his business in Liverpool in 1840 and in 1878 his premises were at 22 Elliot Street, with an advertisement for his firm noted in ‘The Magic Lantern Manual’, Chadwick, W J, Frederick Warne, 1878: ‘Museum of Science, Artists to the Royal Polytechnic, Knott & Co, Dissolving View Apparatus, and Every Description of Slide Manufacturers’; this collection of Knott’s work was found together in an antique shop in Wilmslow, Cheshire in the 1960s and purchased after several years of patient negotiation. Mike has shown the slides in many locations regularly over the intervening years.
Engravings, copper - ‘Oh Rare Shoe’, after J L Touze, Tableau Magique, beauty and the beast, The Magic Lantern, J Johnston, 1822, hand-coloured, and others (2), lithographs - Cham, ‘La Lanterne Magique’ - Diogenes and Lawyers, and Tableaux de Paris, various sizes, steel (1) F-G, some trimmed close (8)
Mahogany-mounted magic lantern slides, various - including Carpenter & Westley ‘Church Steeple Adventure’ from Tales of Baron Munchausen (1), giant lobster and other story slides (4), ‘Scene of the murder of Two Englishmen by Greek Brigands at Marathon’ [July 1870], ‘Welcome’ and ‘Adieu’, ‘The Drunkard’ and sailing ship, G (10)
A pair of C Baker painted tinplate and brass Phantasmagoria Dissolving Lanterns, with rack and pinion lenses, with sprung gates, side doors and tall chimneys, in fitted wooden travelling case doubling as projection platform, with demountable long crank-elevated fan dissolve to lid, each lantern 390mm long, circa 1870, F, some overpainting, one lid fitting loose, lacking illuminants
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