Card folder used to hold Phenakistoscope discs.
Category
Toys
Date
1834
Materials
Card, Textile
Measurements
270 x 270 x 10 mm
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Fox Talbot Museum, Wiltshire
NT 1525405.4
Summary
Card folder used to hold Phenakistoscope discs. Cardboard folder with marbled design on outer front and back. The spine is very damaged, so that the front and back covers are not well attached. Three inner flaps, covered in textile. These are in very poor condition and are barely still attached. There are slits in the centre of all edges except the spine, and remnants of green textile tape affixed in them, indicating that the folder was once secured by ties.
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.