ELLIOTT, SILVESTER, CRANFORD, OGLE & EDGE and others

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ELLIOTT, SILVESTER, CRANFORD, OGLE & EDGE and others

Stereoscope in fitted box with stereo cards including genre and tableau scenes, still life and shipping subjects, 1850s and later

Mahogany Brewster-pattern stereoscope with turned ivory knob on hinged lid, in central velvet-lined portion of fitted walnut box, the ends of the box partitioned for stereocards; with thirty stereo cards, twenty-two hand-coloured, two with credit blindstamp A. Silvester, other individual cards with credits as above, three with ink credit stamp of S. Powell Optician 38 Chandos St. Trafalgar Square; and a quantity of later cards. a lot

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Titles of tableaux where given are as follows: 'The Orphan's Dream' (Elliott);'Seaside Excursion' (Silvester); 'New Omnibus Regulation' (Silvester);'Quilp in Possession' (Lake Price); 'Terrific Accident Bursting of Old Mrs. Twaddles's Aqua-Vivarium. Other subjects include: 'The "Great Eastern" in Southampton Water (Instantaneaous) No. 219'; 'H.M. Ship Ajax, Kingston Harbour'; a Frith study of a ship on the Clyde and a hand-tinted view of the Porte de St. Etienne, Jerusalem.

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