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Fantascope

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Fantascope
T.T. Bury, published by Ackermann & Co., London; comprising six hand-coloured 9 inch diameter discs, showing a woman beating a man, a man in a turban juggling, a man riding a hobby horse, a man ringing a bell, a dancing couple, a horse jumping through a hoop, in maker's card covers with marbled boards and coloured label and label with instructions dated July 1833

Literature

Blair Whitton (1986), Paper Toys of the World, p. 197.

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Lot Essay

The instructions, which acknowledge the invention to 'Professor Plateau of Brussels', read: 'The eye ought to follow the subjects as they recede from or approach to the centre; as, for instance, the snakes, circles, heads, &c. which will be an improvement.' Ackermann's address is given as, 96 Strand, London.

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