J. Theobald and Company's extra special illustrated catalogue of magic lanterns, slides and apparatus (circa 1900)

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78 •‘The Sloper Seasons.” By -permission. ■ 1 Spring 2 Summer 3 Autumn 4 Winter Clown’s Christmas Punch Bowl. 2 Slides, in frames, iis. 6d. per pair. I Mechanical slide for Harlequin striking bowl 2 Rack effect for Christmas fairy characters to come out of bowl. Mississipi Steamer on Fire, With Boats leaving. Price 3s. 6d. Mechanical Butterfly Rack Slide. (New Design, Copyright.) Butterflies, &c., to revolve and change colour. Windmill view in centre with sails to revolve. Price los. 6d. Pretty Design of Bee-hive. With bees flying, dragon flies and beetles revolving round centre and changing colour. Price los. 6d. Comic Expressions. 3s. each, best quality. Movable, in Mahogany t'rame. 1 Dentist drawing tooth (double effect for eyes and arm to move) 2 and 2a Teasing Polly (2 effect slides) 3 Heads of people (with moving eyes) 4 Playmates, monkey and dog (with moving (^es) 5 Good Rhine Wine (with moving eyes) 6 A Black draught (with moving eyes) 7 A delicious bone (with moving eyes) 8 French clown (with moving eyes) 9 Delight (with moving eyes) 10 A good weed (with moving eyes) 11 A Pinch of snuff (with moving eyes) 12 Priest with wasp 13 Dissection of wasp (with moving eyes) 14 The Sedate priest 15 Laughing pnest 16 Uncle Sam (with moving eyes) 17 Disgust. Priest with caterpillar (double effect, eyes and cate^illar to move 18 A Mellow pear (double effect of eyes and caterpillar to move) The Cellar Ghost. .! Reading 4d. 1 Title Picture 2 Telling ghost story to the new butler 3 The new butler bodily descends to the wine cellar 4 He is caught by the ghost 5 TheJGhost 6 Tableau Artist Sketching from Nature. Copied hy Permission from the ^^Illustrated London 1 He sets forth to sketch by nature 2 He selects his subject 3 He is satisfied so far 4 He goes to get refreshment 5 The critics (animals) have been at work 6 Despair The Artist and Bear Copied by permission of the “ Boy's Own Paper f 1 The Meeting 2 Stratagem 3 A critical moment 4 Victory, and a capital sketch into the Bardin 5 Good Day The Spring Diving Board, or oblige me with a light. 1 Representing a Swimming Bath, with a masher on the spring board smoking, a bather wishes for a light for his Cigarette 2 “ Certainly, with pleasure.” The board having been pulled down, a light is given 3 •* Thank You.The spring board let go, and the man on it is shot into the air 4 “ Consternation.” In the water and to the rescue The Pan of Batter. 1 Pompey would pull the table cloth 2 Total eclipse of Pompey (in the batter) 3 His own Father would’nt know him 4 Pompey himself again (washed) A pair of Studies in Black and White (Wash). Very Amusing. 1 Sambo Wbitewashing. “ Go away from dat Ladder I tole yer.” 2 Sambo comes to grief. “ Thar I tole yer sumfin ud appen.” A pair of Comic Pictures, suitable for use with Single Lanterns in the new Silent Instantaneous Flash Frames. 1 The Darktown Fire Brigade. To the rescue 2 The Darktown Fire Brigade. Saved