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Auction archive: Lot number 39

A collection of mechanical and slipping magic lantern slides including, three hand-cranked mechanical slides comprising two kaleidoscopic slides and a snow-effect slide stamped W. E. & F. Newton... ; a pivoting cut-out metal silhouette slide showing ...

Auction 30.07.1992
30 Jul 1992
Estimate
£400 - £600
ca. US$767 - US$1,151
Price realised:
£858
ca. US$1,646
Auction archive: Lot number 39

A collection of mechanical and slipping magic lantern slides including, three hand-cranked mechanical slides comprising two kaleidoscopic slides and a snow-effect slide stamped W. E. & F. Newton... ; a pivoting cut-out metal silhouette slide showing ...

Auction 30.07.1992
30 Jul 1992
Estimate
£400 - £600
ca. US$767 - US$1,151
Price realised:
£858
ca. US$1,646
Beschreibung:

A collection of mechanical and slipping magic lantern slides including, three hand-cranked mechanical slides comprising two kaleidoscopic slides and a snow-effect slide stamped W. E. & F. Newton... ; a pivoting cut-out metal silhouette slide showing a man on a horse against a painted desert background, stamped Registered ; eight 10 x 4½ inch (approx.) slipping slides showing a man being given an enema, a man doing handstands, leprachauns removing a man's boot, men boxing, ladies feeding a parrot, a man in a balloon removing objects with a pole, witches flying across the sky, ships at sea, titled Refraction of Light in the arctic Regions ; three combined pivoting/slipping slides showing a clown jumping out of a boiling pot, a moonrise over rippling water and a man swallowing a rat; three double pivoting slides showing two figures dancing the polka, two chimney sweeps, a starlit seascape; a five-lever pivoting slide showing a clown; seven slipping slides showing a woman applying make-up, a man carrying a parrot in a cage, a man being shaved, a woman's nose extending, a man with a pie with a woman's head emerging, a Welcome slide, a Chinese acrobat; and three wood mounted lantern slides.

Auction archive: Lot number 39
Auction:
Datum:
30 Jul 1992
Auction house:
Christie's
London, South Kensington
Beschreibung:

A collection of mechanical and slipping magic lantern slides including, three hand-cranked mechanical slides comprising two kaleidoscopic slides and a snow-effect slide stamped W. E. & F. Newton... ; a pivoting cut-out metal silhouette slide showing a man on a horse against a painted desert background, stamped Registered ; eight 10 x 4½ inch (approx.) slipping slides showing a man being given an enema, a man doing handstands, leprachauns removing a man's boot, men boxing, ladies feeding a parrot, a man in a balloon removing objects with a pole, witches flying across the sky, ships at sea, titled Refraction of Light in the arctic Regions ; three combined pivoting/slipping slides showing a clown jumping out of a boiling pot, a moonrise over rippling water and a man swallowing a rat; three double pivoting slides showing two figures dancing the polka, two chimney sweeps, a starlit seascape; a five-lever pivoting slide showing a clown; seven slipping slides showing a woman applying make-up, a man carrying a parrot in a cage, a man being shaved, a woman's nose extending, a man with a pie with a woman's head emerging, a Welcome slide, a Chinese acrobat; and three wood mounted lantern slides.

Auction archive: Lot number 39
Auction:
Datum:
30 Jul 1992
Auction house:
Christie's
London, South Kensington
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