SOLD Victorian Magic Lantern Kaleidoscopic Chromotrope #1 antique beach photo classic and modern all at

classic and modern all at once

complete with clothes pins and fly swatters

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or given as a gift to a fellow student or teacher of the artist’s at the Technic Institute in Nairobi--the address of which is noted on reverse--who brought it back to the states

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SOLD Victorian Magic Lantern Kaleidoscopic Chromotrope #1 antique beach photo classic and modern all atI'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, one of them rotating when one turns the handle; low tech magic! I tried to