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Choreutoscope slide
a 19.5 x 4.5cm., hand-painted six-position slide showing a dentist violently extracting a tooth, in a metal slide-holder with hand cranked internal shutter mechanism and mahogany transport frame
a 19.5 x 4.5cm., hand-painted six-position slide showing a dentist violently extracting a tooth, in a metal slide-holder with hand cranked internal shutter mechanism and mahogany transport frame
Literature
Franz Paul Liesegang (1926), (trans. Hermann Hecht, 1986), Dates and Sources, pp. 36-37.
In 1884 W. C. Hughes was granted British patent number 13,372 of 9 October 1884 for a magic lantern slide carrier based on Beale's Choreutoscope. The idea was developed and a number of companies issued their own versions of the Choreutoscope slide including J. H. Steward. The glass picture slide in this example is fixed and retained in its holder by a hinged wood stopper.
A Choreutoscope slide was sold in Magic Lanterns, Optical Toys and Cameras, 23 November 2000, lot 116. The hand-painted slide with taped edges showed a dancing magician; the shutter construction and transport mechanism were the same.
In 1884 W. C. Hughes was granted British patent number 13,372 of 9 October 1884 for a magic lantern slide carrier based on Beale's Choreutoscope. The idea was developed and a number of companies issued their own versions of the Choreutoscope slide including J. H. Steward. The glass picture slide in this example is fixed and retained in its holder by a hinged wood stopper.
A Choreutoscope slide was sold in Magic Lanterns, Optical Toys and Cameras, 23 November 2000, lot 116. The hand-painted slide with taped edges showed a dancing magician; the shutter construction and transport mechanism were the same.
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