Antique Stereoscope 3D image viewer circa 1905 and set of 5 image cards from 1890s-1900s
An antique Stereoscope viewer with 5 humourous viewing images dating from the late 1800s.
These marvelous little contraptions for amusement are held beneath by the wooden handle and by peering through the blinkered lenses to the card held on the long nose-like platform. Because our eyes view from slightly different angles and each eye sees its own picture, it is as if the collective image we see is in three dimensions.
The Stereoscope is of a light aluminium which has chased decoration all over.
As a decorative piece it has a great look, almost like a mad mask.
Two of the image cards are from a company in New York. The cards here have a slightly saucy humour of their age.
To the base of the viewer there is engraved a very specific ‘Patent February 14th 1905’. Which dates them pretty accurately.
33cm X 13cm X 8cm tall excluding the handle (which folds down). The image slides measure 18cm X 9cm.
£65.00
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An antique Stereoscope viewer with 5 humourous viewing images dating from the late 1800s.
These marvelous little contraptions for amusement are held beneath by the wooden handle and by peering through the blinkered lenses to the card held on the long nose-like platform. Because our eyes view from slightly different angles and each eye sees its own picture, it is as if the collective image we see is in three dimensions.
The Stereoscope is of a light aluminium which has chased decoration all over.
As a decorative piece it has a great look, almost like a mad mask.
Two of the image cards are from a company in New York. The cards here have a slightly saucy humour of their age.
To the base of the viewer there is engraved a very specific ‘Patent February 14th 1905’. Which dates them pretty accurately.
33cm X 13cm X 8cm tall excluding the handle (which folds down). The image slides measure 18cm X 9cm.