Lot with a variety of +/- 125 magic lantern slides.

125 hand-painted glass slides (a minority broken), various sizes, some in wooden frame, some with brass levers, superposed layers and brass handles.

Charming ensemble with all kinds of slides. Several types of mechanical movement slides such as the single slipping slide: by sliding the superposed glass slide with painted templates you make the magicien do his magic, the Arab turn his eyes, the acrobats do their tricks etc. Other slipping slides without the templates, but with painted animals that can pass in the landscape or bikes riding in a street often named slipping panorama slides. Also double slipping sides with a magician and single, double and pivoted lever slides with all kinds of themes. Three chromatropes: a special mechanical magic lantern slide with two (or more) painted glass discs with abstract geometrical patterns that can be rotated with a handle in opposite directions to produce complex and almost hypnotic kaleidoscopic images. Two rackwork slides showing a man eating mice in his sleep (you can even make him chew with affixed lever) and a ship bobbing on the water.