Perfect-Stéréo stereoscope.
Category
Photographic technology
Date
1905 - 1915
Materials
Cardboard, Paper, Glass
Measurements
33 x 88 x 66 mm
Collection
Fox Talbot Museum, Wiltshire
NT 1521128.1
Summary
Perfect-Stéréo stereoscope. Miniature sliding box cardboard body covered in black snakeskin effect paper and printed in silver with geometric design and the words "Perfect-Stéréo" on the top and other geometric designs on each side. Two sections - one slides inside the other to provide focusing. Glass lenses and ground glass screen at back, with slot in front to take the glass stereoscopic slides. Markings: Handwritten inside in blue ink: "C E Head". The design and size of this stereoscope is very similar to the Mignon-Stéréo viewer. Both take the same slides. See General Note below.
Provenance
Part of the Fenton Collection. A gift from British Film Institute in 2017. From 1986-1999, part of BFI collection for the Museum of the Moving Image. BFI purchased collection in 1986 from James Fenton's Museum of Photography, Port Erin, Isle of Man 1976-1986.