Paper discs and wood box with mirror and viewing handle

England

c. 1833

box:10 1/2" x 10 1/2" x 2", discs:9" diam.

Wonderful Ackermann set in wood box with Prof. Plateau designed discs. Box has original mirror and viewing handle.

3168

Anon

France

c. 1833

discs: 7" diam.

A boxed set with twelve discs and handle.

0527

T.T. Bury

England

1833

9" diamter

A boxed set of six discs published by Ackermann & Co.

London

0519

M. Trentsensky

Vienna, Austria

1833

Disc: 11 1/2" diam.

One double-sided disc

0539

S.W. Fores

London, England

1833

Discs: 9" diam.

A boxed set of nine discs. The cover's full title includes Optical Illusions, giving life and activity to inanimate objects, a nut for philosphers to crack. I talso warns' "The public are respectfully cautioned against some greatly infrerior Subjects, with a similar Title".

1281

Anon

England

c. 1835

Discs:9: diam., wood box 11" x 11" x 4"

Box and six discs.A very clever arrangement. The wooden box contaions a mirror on the inside lid. The discs(Ackermann) are set up at the front of the box and then the images are viewed in the mirror.

0520

Alphonse Giroux et Cie

France

c. 1835

discs: 7" diam

An unboxed collection of twenty two discs.

0530

Pub. G.S. Tregear

London, England

1835

Discs: 10 1/2" diam.

A box set of six discs which the box cover declares were invented by "A Rum Joker"

1282

Chez Gambartaine

France

c. 1840

Discs: 7" diam

A set of twelve discs contained with a handle in colorfully decorated box. Box lid demonstrates how the viewer doesn't need a mirror but uses the double disc handle to put a blank disc on one edge and an illustrated image on the other and then can view the motion by spinning the handle and looking through the blank, slotted disc.

0521

Anon

Germany

c. 1835

Discs" 7 1/2" diam.

A boxed set of twelve discs, hand and instructions in German, French & Enlgish.

0526

J. Bradburn

New York, America

c. 1860

Discs: 7" diam.

A boxed set of twelve discs. Bradburn published four different sets, each with the same cover and with different discs.

0535

Professor Zimmerman

America

1904

Discs: 4" diam

An adaptation of the phenakistascope, the Ludoscope requires no mirror. A plain slotted disc and the painted card were twirled together.  The illusion of motion was  created by viewing  the designs on the card through the slotted disc.

0538

Eadweard Muybridge

America

1893

9 1/2" x 10 1/2"

Six plates by Muybridge from his broader study, done with the University of Pennsylvania, on "Animal Locomotion". Muybridge had the Zoopraxiscope built as a projecting phenakistascope. He used these drawings, transfered to glass discs to be projected. 

1286

Anon

Colored drawing

France

c. 1840

8 1/2" x 8 1/2"

This drawing which shows what seems to be a double handle for viewing phenakistascope discs may well have been the sketch for a cover design.

0543

Clussan-Lanauve

Watercolor

France

1946

7" x 9"

A sketch and the subsequent cover for the Cannes International Film Festival of 1946

1203