Stereoscopic Photochromoscope or Three-Colour Viewer (Frederick E. Ives's 'Kromskop'), by The Photochromoscope Syndicate, London, 1898 | |||||||||||
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| Inventory Number: | 16735 | ||||||||||
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| Place Created: | London England United Kingdom Europe |
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| Accession Number: | 1961-137/23 part | ||||||||||
| Brief Description: | Viewer for colour-separation transparencies consisting of a mahogany box with two lenses in a hinged panel at the front, a stepped set of glass filters (red, blue and green), a hinged mirror and a frosted glass light diffuser. With ebonite eyeshade; in polished fitted wooden case with a hinged door and leather carrying handle. The back of the door has a list written by the Oxford Camera Club of rules for using, lending and borrowing the instrument. It also gives care instructions. The key to the case sits inside. | ||||||||||
| Primary Inscriptions: | "THE "KROMSKOP"/ IVES'S PATENT/ The Photochromsocope Syndicate L'd/ HOLBEIN HOUSE/ 121 Shaftesbury Av'e LONDON W.C.".
Manuscript rules dated 1898 inside box lid; manuscript label underneath. | ||||||||||
| Provenance: | Bequeathed by Henry Minn in 1961. Formerly the property of The Oxford Camera Club, who acquired it in 1898. | ||||||||||
| Collection Group: | Minn Collection | ||||||||||
| Material(s): |
Mahogany Glass Copper Alloy Ebonite Paper | ||||||||||
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