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Phantasmagoria magic lantern c. 1820

Phantasmagoria magic lantern c. 1820

circa 1820
Ensign Optiscope Number 6 projector

Ensign Optiscope Number 6 projector

circa 1905
Magic Lantern and slides for Children, 1913-1920

Magic Lantern and slides for Children, 1913-1920

1913-1920
'EP' toy magic lantern

'EP' toy magic lantern

1865-1880
Tri-unial magic lantern

Tri-unial magic lantern

1880
Ernst Plank Standard Magic Lantern

Ernst Plank Standard Magic Lantern

circa 1910
GBN toy magic lantern

GBN toy magic lantern

1905
W Butcher magic lantern in metal case

W Butcher magic lantern in metal case

1900
Magic Lantern for Children

Magic Lantern for Children

1913-1920
Magic Lantern

Magic Lantern

1780-1820
'Boys Own' magic lantern

'Boys Own' magic lantern

c. 1910
Magic Lantern

Magic Lantern

1890
Magic Lantern and Accessories

Magic Lantern and Accessories

toy magic lantern

toy magic lantern

1880-1900
Monarch Ethopticon Bi-Unial lantern

Monarch Ethopticon Bi-Unial lantern

1800-1890
Magic Lantern with Modified Back

Magic Lantern with Modified Back

1820
Magic Lantern Body

Magic Lantern Body

1830
Toy Magic Lantern

Toy Magic Lantern

circa 1905
Magic Lantern

Magic Lantern

Magic lantern projector

Magic lantern projector

Biunial magic lantern

Biunial magic lantern

circa 1900
Magic Lantern Kaleidoscope byNewton & Son, 3 Fleet

Magic Lantern Kaleidoscope byNewton & Son, 3 Fleet

Kodak Eringa lantern, magic lantern in iron and nickel plated brass

Kodak Eringa lantern, magic lantern in iron and nickel plated brass

1903-1913
Laboratory Lantern with Independent Optical System

Laboratory Lantern with Independent Optical System

Hoare Bi-unial Magic Lantern

Hoare Bi-unial Magic Lantern

1880
Newton lantern Slide Projector

Newton lantern Slide Projector

1880-1890
Magic Lantern

Magic Lantern

magic lantern or slide projector

magic lantern or slide projector

circa 1890
Magic Lantern

Magic Lantern

Toy Magic Lantern

Toy Magic Lantern

Sciopticon magic lantern for three and one quarter inch square slides, wooden base and lens panel, enameled iron lamp house, brass condenser housing and lens mount. Multiple wick oil burner and chimney missing. Fitted with a Petsvalle type lens, F 5.5 inch, rack and pinion focusing. Double plano-convex condenser 4 inch diameter. 3 1/2 inch silver reflector in back of cylinder lamp housing.

Sciopticon Magic Lantern

c. 1890
Praestantia magic lantern projector, Riley Brothers, Bradford.

Praestantia Magic Lantern

circa 1890
Magic lantern for 3 1/4 inch slides. Fitted with a 7 inch projection lens with tinter slot and flap shutter, rack and pinion focusing. Condenser lenses missing. Single side door with blue glass window. J. Wrench.

Wrench Magic Lantern with case

Wood's Euphaneron magic lantern made by E G Wood, 74 cheapside, London. All-metal lantern for 3 1/4" square slides; rack focused lens; wooden slide carrier; chimney, rear condensor lens, light source missing.

Wood's Euphaneron magic lantern

Phantasmagoria magic lantern c. 1820.

Phantasmagoria magic lantern

circa 1820
Terpuoscope magic lantern inside a wooden box together with a wooden double slider carrier. Optical lantern with mechanical slide changing mechanism. Rackwork carries unmounted slides from below the lens mounting into the focal plane ejecting previous slide from the top. Provision for mounted slides or ordinary slide carrier. 6 inch projection lens fitted with rack and pinion focusing. No light spurce. Storage space below lamp chamber for slides, chimney is missing etc. J. Wrench and co c.1890.

Terpuoscope Magic Lantern

1885-1895
Biunial magic lantern with gas burners, slide cameras, and chimney in wooden carrying case, n.d. 1880-1900

Biunial magic lantern, c 1890

1880-1900
Benetfink Magic Lantern. Single lantern made from mahogany and brass. Capping lens with tinter slots and two sets of tinters. Incandescent gas fitting with semi-cylindrical silvered reflector. With iron chimney and roof. With two slide carrier, eclipse and rollerblind sliding carrier. With glass and wood liquid cell. All in wooden box.

Benetfink Magic Lantern

1900
All metal magic lantern house. Originally the light source was presumably a paraffin lamp with three or four wicks but was later converted to accept an electric light source. The lantern takes standard slides of 3 1/4" square inches. A large 4 1/2" condensor mounted before the lamp produced an approximately parallel beam which evenly illuminated the slide. With a brass mounted Dallmeyer No.3 projection lens. In a wooden box. Andrew H. Baird, Scientific Instrument Makers., Edinburgh, c. 1912.

Magic Lantern

circa 1912
Magic lantern, black enamelled iron body with chimney, brass lens tube and lens. No light sources. No makers name. In wooden box, with fittings for light source and tilting projector.

Black enamel magic lantern

c. 1890
magic lantern, for use with electric arc lamp for oxy-hydrogen limelight, by William Ladd, London, England, 1870. Fitted with condenser, projection apparatus, polarising microscope, diaphragms etc.

Magic lantern

1870
Mirrorscope opaque projector. Two gas jets; pictures held on vertical rear door by double rack operated holder.

Mirrorscope opaque projector

Ensign Optiscope No 6 lantern slide projector.

Ensign Optiscope No 6

1900-1910
Ensign Optiscope 'Sociable' No.5 Projection Lantern, Ensign Ltd. 1938. In original cardboard box.

Ensign Optiscope 'Sociable' No 5 magic lantern slide projector, 1938

1938
Magic Lantern. All metal. Objective and condenser lenses missing. Double section telescopic chimney, belonging to three-wick oil burner, sperately catalogued as 1990-5036/7197.

Magic Lantern

Matagraph 35mm cine and magic lantern slide projector, 1898. Levi, Jones & Co Ltd, London. The mahogany body stamped '11'; hand crank, brass-bound lens, lacquered-brass beater movement, rear metal safety shutter, top-mounting film-holder, lantern slide holder and metal lamphouse with chimney. (In maker's original box with lacquered brass fixing screws - 1997-5006/2).

Matagraph 35mm cine and magic lantern slide projector

1898
Magic lantern. Wooden body single lantern with iron top and chimney. Side door is hinged with ventilation flaps on bottom of either side. No light source present. Fitted with a double plano-convex condenser in brass mount. With spring loaded pressure plate in slide aperture. 6 inch objective lens fitted, with rack and pinion focusing and single drawtube.

Magic lantern

Miniature magic lantern projector, with spirit lamp. Pressed metal head of cherub on door

Miniature magic lantern projector

toy magic lantern and bullseye lamp. Bullseye torch accepting twin cycle lamp battery, lens removable replaceable by lantern slide attachment with single condenser lens and double projection lens. Base for supporting during projection, for 3cm wide slides.

toy magic lantern and bullseye lamp

Magic lantern oil illuminant by Hinks and Son c. 1875

Magic Lantern

1875