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Rowsell's graphoscope stereo viewer for stereo pictures 3"x6".

Rowsell's Graphoscope Stereo Viewer.

1910
Stereo-graphoscope with large magnifying lens. Floor standing, on casters, ebonised wood with chased and inlaid decoration, ornamental handles. Unknown manufacturer, about 1900.

Stereo-Graphoscope

1880-1910
Alfred C Kemper, Chicago. All-metal box camera for 1 1/4 inch film camera, 1 /8 inch diameter. Simple lens; removable cap with small aperture. T/I shutter. Removable disc in back to convert to graphoscope viewer. Two spring retaining clips. No 13286. In original carton.

The Kombi Camera

1893
Kombi camera, 1895. Manufactured by Alfred Kemper, Chicago. Miniature brass box camera and graphoscope. Roll film 1 1/4 inch wide, pictures 1/4 inch square. Simple lens, fixed aperture and focus. Time and Instantaneous shutter, in original carton. Lens, pressure plate and mask missing. Serial No 15107. (M1308)

Kombi Box Camera

1895
Solmalvico stereo-graphoscope with graphoscope lens 12.5ccm in diameter. Paired stereo lenses. Holders for stereo transparencies, cards and photographs. Ivory knobs to picture holder and graphoscope lens panel. Joseph Somalvico & Co.

Somalvico Stereo-graphoscope

Elaborate table stereoscope titled, ' The Natural Stereoscope' by J Wood, Birkby, Huddersfield with dedication plaque, 1864.

The Natural Stereoscope

1864
Large graphoscope 65 x 32 x 14cm closed. 18cm diameter double convex lens. Non prismatic stereo lens. Print holder with fretwork top, heat and leaf motif. 19 x 10.5cm ground glass screen.

Stereographoscope

Large graphoscope 18cm diameter single lens. Ivory tip to struts. Non prismatic stereo lenses. Ground glass mising from picture carrier. Fretwork top. Stereoscopic company.

Stereoscopic Company Improved Graphoscope

Small painted lacquer graphoscope. 22.5 x 14.5 x 7cm closed. In black lacquer painted with a flower motif in colours. Lens to a Z shape. Fitted with a 9.5cm large lens paired with stereo lenses in lid. With a three position supporting leg. Overall (deployed): 266 mm x 148 mm x 260 mm.

Small painted lacquer graphoscope

Graphoscope for cabinet photographs. Ebonised wood of 9cm diameter lens 14 x 21 x 6cm closed. 'Exposition Universal 1878' incised into lens.

Graphoscope for cabinet photographs

1878
Veneered wooden box 83 x 136 x 28mm closed lid contains brass mounted diameter lens, sliding holder in base for card with storage space for other cards.

Pocket graphoscope for C.arteDe.Visites

c1870
Pocket graphoscope for Carte De Visite pictures. Wooden box 4 1/2 x 3 x 1" opening with hinged lens, to form viewer for cartes de visite. 2 1/2" slot to hold card. Storage capacity for about 16 cards

Pocket Graphoscope for Carte De Visite pictures

Graphoscope type of viewer for viewing pictures, up to postcard size.

Graphoscope Viewer.

circa 1910
Rowsell's Graphoscope stereo viewer made of polished mahogany, intended for 3 x 6 inch stereo pictures. A single lens magnifier is also fitted for examining small detail, c.1910.

Rowsell's Graphoscope stereo viewer.

1905-1915
Graphoscope by J.H. Steward, 406 Strand, London, in green linen-covered wooden box, with twelve tinted photographs of flowers, prepared by F. Fridrich, Prague (see part records)

Graphoscope by J.H. Steward, London

Combined stereoscope and graphoscope by Hare, 1865.

Combined Stereoscope and Graphoscope

1865
Veneered ebony box with brass inlay. 64mm diameter lens with brass surround. Sliding card holder with ivory nameplate. 150x95x30mm closed. E. Ziegler.

Pocket graphoscope for Cartes de Visite

Black textured paper covered box, 19.5 x 12 x 3cm when closed. 6.3cm diameter lens in the lid which erects by internal spring hen opened. The interior is lines with blue paper. There is a sliding simple holder for cards and space for a number of cabinet sized pictures. The fabric hinge is broken.

Folding Graphoscope for Cabinet Photographs

Z form graphoscope inlaid with coloured woods. 13cm diameter viewing lens. Sliding print holder. Supported on two brass rods. Three position tilting support.

Graphoscope

Large graphoscope with dimensions when closed of 16 x 9 1/2 x 4 1/2 inches. With a 61/2 inch diameter viewing lens. Fitted with stereo lenses in opera glass mount and with rack and pinion focusing. Of the folding Brewster type viewer for stereoslides. The lid with mirror is missing. Veneered and inlaid with makers mark of a star on the support strut.

Large Graphoscope