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Perfescope-Stereoscope, metal body with “tortoiseshell” finish, brown
velvet around viewer hood, turned wood handle, patent date of October
15, 1895, two boxes of Underwood & Underwood stereocards of India
and Ceylon, and approximately thirty loose cards with images from
Nantucket, Yosemite Valley, and other various places.
$200-300
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“The Graphotrope” Carte-de-visite Display, manufactured by William
Walker & Co., New Haven, patd. June 1866, walnut viewing box with
four glazed openings (two on each side) flanked by turned half columns
and trimmed with ripple molding, hinged lid with floral relief and maker’s
printed label inside stating The Graphotrope, Manufactured by William
Walker & Co., New Haven, patd. June 12th 1866, viewing frame rotates
on an iron pillar mounted to a raised plinth causing metal framed
photographs to move from left to the right window, together with
twenty-seven tin-framed photographs by various studios, ht. 8 1/2 in.
$400-600
161.
Brewster-Pattern Stereoscope and a Stereo-Graphoscope, green
and black marbleized painted wedged-shaped body with ground
glass for illuminating tissue or glass views, ht. 6 1/2; collapsible walnut
Graphoscope with 4-in. main lens (missing) above stereo lenses,
porcelain handled drawer on bun feet, wd. 12 in.
$400-600
162.
Framed Zograscope Tapestry, The Optical Viewer, after the 1791
painting by Louis-Leopold Boilly, depicting a young woman and child
looking at prints through a zograscope, 29 1/2 x 39 1/4 in.
Note: The woman depicted is Sebastienne Louise Gely, who at age 16
had just married the French revolutionary Georges Danton, his second
wife. The boy in front of her is Danton’s son by his first wife.
$200-300
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