Toy magic lantern slide projector.
Gebrüder Bing
Category
Photographic technology
Date
1890 - 1910
Materials
Metal, Glass
Measurements
214 x 120 x 225 mm
Order this imageCollection
Fox Talbot Museum, Wiltshire
NT 1525218.1
Summary
Toy magic lantern slide projector. This is of pressed sheet metal (russian iron) construction. The whole stands on four lion's paw feet. The lamphouse is rectangular. The base plate and the domed top are secured to the sides by folding and pressing the metal over flanges which are extensions of the side walls. The base of the lamphouse has a circular hole which takes the base of the illuminant. The back wall is pieced with 6 vertical slots to ventilate the illuminant. The left side wall is solid and the right side wall incudes the overlap where the single sheet lamphouse walls come together. Through the join a side door is hinged to allow access of and to the illuminant. On the door is the diamond shaped trademark of the manufacturer GBN.The door secures with a small metal turnbuckle. The top of the lamphouse is slightly domed and has a raised chimney opening into which the glass of ther illuminant would project. The front of the lamphouse has a circular, internal mounting containing the condenser lens, outside the opening to the condenser is the rectangular slide carrier with a circular extension which takes the objective lens assembly.
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
Gebrüder Bing , manufacturer