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Old 12-06-2016, 08:48 PM
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Originally Posted by hollydog View Post
Not a photograph but a magic lantern, with dealers plate John Watson 34 Grainger St Newcastle, according to Lucerna, the magic lantern resource, that dates it to mid 1890s. Currently residing in my fathers loft and has been for at least 60 years, pics attached
Nice item. I did have a box of magic lantern glass slides at one time. Landscape photos, coloured Christmas themed slides and other religious ones. Now sadly gone. All very collectable I think. Boy were they heavy when all together.
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