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Ensign Optiscope Number 6 projector

Cinematography

c. 1905

'Boys Own' magic lantern

Cinematography

Tri-unial magic lantern

Photographic Technology

1880

W Butcher magic lantern

Cinematography

1900

Monarch Ethopticon Bi-Unial lantern

Photographic Technology

1800-1890

Hoare Bi-unial Magic Lantern

Cinematography

1880

'EP' toy magic lantern

Cinematography

1865-1880

Phantasmagoria magic lantern

Cinematography

1820

Magic Lantern

Cinematography

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

Cinematography
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. Potential ACM (asbestos)

Sciopticon magic lantern

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

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

Photographs

1938
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

Cinematography
Thornton Pickard 'Artist' magic lantern, used at John Rylands Library.

Thornton-Pickard "Artist" Magic Lantern

Photographic Technology

1895
Newton & Co., 3 Fleet Street, London. For projecting sets of three seperation positives; three lenses (one missing) on diverging mechanism; outer pair individually adjustable up and across for alignment (lefthand adjuster missing). Beamsplitter box to send projection light through RGB filters to the lenses (lid missing).

Ives Lantern Photochromoscope

Photographic Technology
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

Cinematography
Early 'bull's-eye lantern' pattern magic lantern, orginally with polychrome colouring now mostly gone. Candle holder, with hinged front with lens tube. For 95mm wide slides. Unknown maker, about 1780 to 1820.

Magic Lantern

Cinematography

1780-1820
Ensign Optiscope No 6 lantern slide projector.

Ensign Optiscope No 6

Photographic Technology

1900-1910
Toy magic lantern for 4cm wide slides; oil lamp missing; horizontal cylindrical body on hollow wooden base with storage for slides; with 9 slides; in box.

Toy magic lantern

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

Biunial magic lantern, c 1890

Photographic Technology

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

Cinematography

1900
Hughes magic lantern

Hughes magic lantern

Cinematography
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

Optics

1870
No maker's name. All metal, for 3 1/4 x 3 1/4" slides. Single element lens; single condenser; shallow metal reflector. For oil lamp (catalogued at 1990-5036/7195). In metal case.

Magic Lantern

Cinematography
Magic lantern, black enamelled iron body with chimney, brass lens tube and lens. No light sources. No makers name. With fittings for light source and tilting projector. Potential ACM (asbestos)

Black enamel magic lantern

Cinematography
Double lantern with accessories

Double lantern with accessories

Cinematography
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

Cinematography
Triunial lantern with box, by J.H.Steward, 406 Strand, London, c.1890. (see part records)

Early triunial lantern with box

Cinematography
W C Hughes & Co magic lantern projector. Iron body and brass lens mounts. For 3 1/4" x 3 1/4" slides. F:12" lens in Rackworth mount.

W C Hughes magic lantern projector

Cinematography
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

Cinematography
Two gas jets; pictures held on vertical rear door by double rack operated holder.

Mirrorscope opaque projector

Cinematography
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.

Benetfink Magic Lantern

Cinematography

1900
Kodak Eringa lantern. Magic lantern in iron and nickel plated brass. Rack and pinion extension and rack and pinion focusing. Screw adjustment on 'gate; giving up to 2 1/4 inches separation between lens tube and condenser. Double plano-convex condenser. Petzval type lens with filter slot and flasher. Iron lamphouse, no light source. Side door on each side with shutter blue glass inspection windows. Double rear door. In iron case. Kodak Limited c.1908.

Kodak Eringa lantern

Cinematography

1903-1913
Magic lantern; fluted polychrome cylindrical lantern body; 14.5cm diameter; for 6cm wide slides; with 'Wunder Lampe' oil lamp, not matching.

Lanternscope magic lantern

Photographic Technology
Magic lantern. Double lantern for 3 1/4 inch square slides; pair of lenses with double V dissolvers, linked for simultaneaous operation, rack focusing. Lens seperation on rack adjusted lens panel on sliding extension. One large rear condenser lens, two smaller front lenses; single light source (missing). Individual single slide holders.

Double lantern

Cinematography
Lantern/projector with lens, with electric bulb illumination c. 1900

Lantern/projector with lens, with electric bulb illumination

Cinematography

1900
Newton magic lantern F: 10 inch projection lens (front elements missing), rack and pinion focusing (pinion missing). Double condenser. 2 side doors with circular red windows, sealed up. All brass, no chimney or lightsource. Newton and Co.

Newton Magic L

Cinematography
Terpuoscope magic lantern. 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

Cinematography

1885-1895
Lantern slide holder; for Matagraph 35mm cine and magic lantern slide projector, 1898.

Lantern Slide Holder

Cinematography

1898
Newton slide projector. For 3 1/4 x 3 1/4" slides. F:12" lens, rack focused; double condenser; incandescent lamp fitting with reflector; prefocus base lamp. Wooden slide holder. Curtain.

Newton lantern slide projector, c 1885

Cinematography

1880-1890
Wooden case for Matagraph 35mm cine and magic lantern slide projector, 1898. In maker's original box with lacquered brass fixing screws. (Together with three alan keys, four screws). Circular handle fitted inside door. Two metal carrying handles. Hinged front with lock (no key).

Wooden Case For Matagraph

Cinematography

1898
Ex Medical Department, Kodak Limited, Kingsway. For 3 1/4 x 3 1/4" slides. F:18" lens, with flasher, rack focused. Electric lamp, ES fitting, refelctor. Condensor missing. Black crackle paint; lid of lamphouse hinged up for ventilation; curtain. In metal case.

Slide projector

Cinematography
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

Cinematography
EP Toy magic lantern . For 35mm wide slides. Cylindrical lamphouse. Painted red with brass chimney. Brass single wick oil lamp base. Single condenser lens. Double objective lens. Wooden baseboard. Ernest Planck. In wooden case, instructions in German, French and English on inside of case. With 12 slides, fairytale subjects.

EP toy magic lantern

Cinematography
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

Cinematography

1898
Black painted iron lantern. Three wick oil burner. Double plano convex condenser. Rack and pinion focused objective with disc shutter. Chimney missing.

Magic lantern

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

Miniature magic lantern projector

Photographic Technology
Laboratory lantern with independent optical system

Laboratory lantern with independent optical system

Cinematography
Praestantia magic lantern projector, Riley Brothers, Bradford.

Praestantia Magic Lantern

Cinematography

c. 1890
Phantasmagoria magic lantern c. 1820

Phantasmagoria magic lantern

Cinematography

c. 1820