SOLD Victorian Magic Lantern Kaleidoscopic Chromotrope #2 handmade doorstop and then released to let

and then released to let the shutter close

and then another "Ed" for good measure

and I believe would have been used for medicine or perfume

and while I am certain this one was made by one or the other

Good placed where is can be enjoyed from a variety of angles

SOLD Victorian Magic Lantern Kaleidoscopic Chromotrope #2 handmade doorstop and then released to letI'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