SOLD Victorian Magic Lantern Kaleidoscopic Chromotrope #1 astronomical print which reads a bit green

which reads a bit green in some of the photos and a bit pink in others

7/9 life size)

each only fits well where it is)

making it feel itself rather like a veil

SOLD Victorian Magic Lantern Kaleidoscopic Chromotrope #1 astronomical print which reads a bit greenI'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, one of them rotating when one turns the handle; low tech magic! I tried to