Magic lantern
General Electric Co.
Category
Toys
Date
Unknown
Materials
Metal, glass and plastic
Measurements
202 mm (length); 80 mm (width); 142 mm (height)
Place of origin
England
Order this imageCollection
Sudbury Hall Museum of Childhood, Derbyshire
NT 666378
Summary
A black painted, metal, electric magic lantern. It comprises a rectangular box with an opening hinged door, revealing a small glass bulb inside. The bulb is linked to a long brown flex, which emerges through a circular hole in the top of the rectangular box. At the end of the flex is a cylindrical brown plastic socket. The floor of this box has two oval and one circular shaped hole in it. On the front of the box is an adjustable glass lens housed in a tarnished, gold coloured metal casing.
Provenance
Donated to the Museum of Childhood by Mr R. F. Beacher in July 1976.
Marks and inscriptions
On the plastic box inside the metal rectangular box of the magic lantern: '200-250 V.AC// 3/5/8 V.I.AMP.// MADE IN// ENGLAND' On the socket at the end of the flex: 'MADE IN ENGLAND/ PAT. NO. 480184/ 3560/ GEC'
Makers and roles
General Electric Co., maker