Stereoscope
Category
Toys
Date
Unknown
Materials
Wood and glass
Measurements
165 mm (length); 190 mm (width); 109 mm (depth)
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Sudbury Hall Museum of Childhood, Derbyshire
NT 664003
Summary
A wooden stereoscope which tapers towards the two glass eye lenses which are housed in a hinged wooden frame. At the other, wider, end is rectangular piece of frosted glass also housed in a wooden frame which has a slot at each side. Presumably this would allow the user to insert a stereoscope card on which is mounted two identical photographs. When viewed through the glass eye lenses the image appears in 3D. On one side, presumably the top of the stereoscope is a hinged wooden flap with a small white knob.