A Mutoscope Patent viewer No. 6506

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A Mutoscope Patent viewer No. 6506
by Gaumont & Cie, Paris, with hand-turned mechanism, in cast hexagonal case finished in light and dark blue, with side door, marquee and window in the top, on a matching stand, with one International Mutoscope Reel Co. reel no. 7995 showing an exotic dancer -- 74in. (188cm.) high with marquee

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The French firm Gaumont & Cie under Leon Gaumont was responsible for manufacturing the cast-iron cabinets and mechanisms for mutoscopes made in France, Belgium, Holland (and later in Britain). The company contracted the cabinet castings to a foundry outside Paris.

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