SOLD Victorian Magic Lantern Kaleidoscopic Chromotrope #2 antique pen wipe or on the shelf storing

or on the shelf storing all of the candles and matches in the house

crisp and clean and super precise

containing 48 pages of drawings (filling entire pages)

The sides of the box feature a scroll of what I believe are leaves and vines and other decorative flourishes

SOLD Victorian Magic Lantern Kaleidoscopic Chromotrope #2 antique pen wipe or on the shelf storingI've had a couple of these, but it's been a long time they seem to have become harder and harder to find, and more and more precious. Happily I found two on a recent trip to Pennsylvania, listed individually today. Produced by some makers of magic lantern slides, these mechanical devices were called chromotropes, producing kaleidoscopic effects via two painted glass slides, with one of them rotating when one turns the handle; low tech marvelousness! I