SOLD Victorian Magic Lantern Kaleidoscopic Chromotrope #1 antique beach photo which I assume is the

which I assume is the case here

I love the back of this mat as much as the front

and I must say the wings on them

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and also I think a couple of small white marks that I did not notice when shooting but which rubbed right off afterwards

SOLD Victorian Magic Lantern Kaleidoscopic Chromotrope #1 antique beach photo which I assume is theI've had a couple of these, but it's been a long time they seem to have become harder and harder to find, and more and more precious. Happily I found two on a recent trip to Pennsylvania, listed individually today. Produced by some makers of magic lantern slides, these mechanical devices were called chromotropes, producing kaleidoscopic effects via two painted glass slides, one of them rotating when one turns the handle; low tech magic! I tried to