SOLD Victorian Magic Lantern Kaleidoscopic Chromotrope #1 prple 7/8" wide and deep

7/8" wide and deep

Well worn but all the better for it

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as if done by an artist whose work I have seen somewhere but can't place

SOLD Victorian Magic Lantern Kaleidoscopic Chromotrope #1 prple 7/8" wide and deepI'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