Wooden Holmes type stereoscope
Category
Photographic technology
Date
1890
Materials
Wood, Glass, Metal, Brass
Measurements
200 x 180 x 320 mm
Order this imageCollection
Fox Talbot Museum, Wiltshire
NT 1524966.1
Summary
Holmes type wooden stereoscope hand viewer. The viewer is of a wooden construction apart from two square lenses and the metal wire slots on the sliding stereoscope stage. Underneath the stereoscope on a brass hinge is a folding handle which also acts at the connection to the separate candlestick stand.
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