SOLD Victorian Magic Lantern Kaleidoscopic Chromotrope #2 antique pen wipe I don't think I've ever

I don't think I've ever seen a better jacks bag that this one

are American I believe

containing 48 pages of drawings (filling entire pages)

Though there is no maker's mark on this set but It seems to me it must have been made in Germany for the English/American market

held on with nails at the shoulders

SOLD Victorian Magic Lantern Kaleidoscopic Chromotrope #2 antique pen wipe I don't think I've everI'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, with one of them rotating when one turns the handle; low tech marvelousness! I