Antique Media & Optics
Stereoscopes, magic lanterns with hand-tinted slides, working Edison cylinder phonographs, brass-and-mahogany plate cameras, and film-era optical equipment. Working examples, restorable examples, and honest parts machines — the last always labeled as such.
Transitional Standard Model B in black-japanned metal top cabinet. Plays two-minute wax cylinders. Governor smooth, mainspring full.
Twenty-four Blue Amberols in original tubes. Marches, sentimental ballads, one Sousa, one Harry Lauder. All play cleanly on a four-minute reproducer.
Classic Holmes-Bates hand stereoscope in walnut with original burgundy velvet hood. Lenses clear, hinge tight, folding stand snaps home.
Complete 100-view Keystone tour set in original oak case. Egypt, Japan, the Alps, the St. Louis Fair. Cards crisp, corners square.
Nuremberg tin-plate lantern with brass lens barrel, chimney intact. 18 period slides. Converted to electric; original burner boxed.
24 hand-tinted views of the 1893 Chicago World's Fair by T. H. McAllister, New York. Original mahogany frames. Colors unusually strong.
Post-war Filmo 70 in the crinkle-finish case. Runs quiet, threads clean, lamp house cool. Includes 400-ft reel and spare belt.
Six sealed 100-ft rolls of Kodak Ektachrome 160 Type A, 16mm, expired 1993. Cold-stored since new. Discontinued stock.
Brass Petzval portrait lens by Voigtländer, Vienna era, ~5-inch focal length. Original stops, rack focus smooth, glass unetched.
Scovill mahogany-and-brass half-plate view camera, ~1878. Bellows supple, light-tight, one original plate holder. Body only, no lens.