Wooden box containing stereoscope with 3 rotating coloured filters, and glass stereoscopic slides.
Sir Joseph Lyons (1847 - 1917)
Category
Photographic technology
Date
1880 - 1885
Materials
Measurements
142 x 442 x 222 mm
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Fox Talbot Museum, Wiltshire
NT 1521132
Summary
Wooden box containing stereoscope with 3 rotating coloured filters (based on the patent of Joseph Lyons), and glass stereoscopic slides.
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.
Makers and roles
Sir Joseph Lyons (1847 - 1917), patentee