SOLD Victorian Magic Lantern Kaleidoscopic Chromotrope #2 pair of clay women This is a terrific old

This is a terrific old turned wood box in near perfect condition

and many years of use left in it

)  I love contexts

7 7/8" x 5 7/16 and in very good condition with minor age coming around the edges and few graphite smudges in the background

and I love the girl with her hoop and basket

SOLD Victorian Magic Lantern Kaleidoscopic Chromotrope #2 pair of clay women This is a terrific oldI'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, with one of them rotating when one turns the handle; low tech marvelousness! I