SMITH, BECK & BECK, LondonA mahogany-body Achromatic Stereoscope no. 1009 with focusing eyepieces in a fitted case containing a quantity of stereocards; a quantity of glass diapositives including Lunar Photographs by Warren de la Rue in two leather stereograph cases; The South African War through the stereoscope in a bookform volume.

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SMITH, BECK & BECK, LondonA mahogany-body Achromatic Stereoscope no. 1009 with focusing eyepieces in a fitted case containing a quantity of stereocards; a quantity of glass diapositives including Lunar Photographs by Warren de la Rue in two leather stereograph cases; The South African War through the stereoscope in a bookform volume.

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The stereocards include The International Exhibition of 1862 nos. 2, 12, 13, 35, 53, 61, 135 and 240; two Lawrence and Houseworth, San Francisco (publishers) cards comprising no. 184. San Francisco - From the Cosmopolitan Hotel and Yosemite Valley; two Martin's Gallery of Minnesota cards showing View of the City of St Paul, Min. and Sand-Stone Mound (near Hudson, Wis.); two cards showing Brewster-pattern stereoscopes in use.

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