Magic lantern - Victorian pattern.Large magic lantern typical of Victorian era.

Possibly ‘professional’ version for projectingdissolving slides during reel changes in early

cinemas.

Manufacturer’s name plate gives it at WalterTyler’s ‘new pattern Helioscopic Lantern’.

Original illumination possibly incandescent gas mantleor acetylene (‘lime-light’) but now on the way to

conversion to forced-cooled, high-intensity electric lighting.

Includes a few hand-cranked rotating slides and ‘slip’ slidesachieving crude animation. Also selection of 3-1/4 in square

glass slides - but without wooden slidecarrier (these remain quite common).

Weight almost 10 kg before slides and packaging

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