The Optical Magic Lantern Journal (October 1896)

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iv. The Optical Magic Lantern Journal and Photographic Enlarger. ARCHER'S IMPROVED ; Proved superior to a , a]! others, : haat See Reports, Will show to perfection any distance fiom “THE IDEAL” See Enthusiastic Testimonials from Paut LanGE, Esq., G. E. Tuompson, Esq., Manchester OPTICAL LANTERNS. Two Prize Medals. our new PERFECT Single Lantern and Automatic Dlssolver amera Glub, and many others . ‘‘THE IDEAL,” the Lantern of the future. Price £8 15s. complete. No. 3, Plainer Form, £6 6s. complete, The Improved “PHOTINUS ” is the most powerful oil lantern in the world. Price £4 4s. ARCHER'S NEW OPAQUE SOREENS, just supplied to the Manchester Photo Society, as they proved, THE BEST OF ALL. (See Testimonial.) ARCHER & SONS. Lantern Specialists and Manufacturers, 43 to 49, Lord Street, Liverpool. Established 1848, PROFESSIONAL Lanternist of 20 years’ experience is open to engagements, with or without his own apparatus, in town or country, on very moderate terms. Reference, Editor of this Journal.—Addreszs, Optics, 13, York-street, Walworth, London, S.E. Miatieticen portable Lantern, the most compact and efficient Optical Lantern on the market ; a few atock soiled for disposal at liberal discount for cash.— L. Matthews, Strafford House, Hadley Green, Barnet. \Y REAT CLEARANCE SALE of New and Second hand High-class Lanterns, which must be sold.— Walter Tyler’s £54 ‘Iriple, for £38 10s.; quite new. Wrench’s treble rack telescope triple. A fine triple, 44 in. condensers, used by Wilkie ; complete with jet, dissolvers. A magnificent combination oxy-hydrogen microscope by Ladd; cost £100; price £82 10s. A beautifully japanned modern tin triple, two Malden dissolving taps, brass supply pipes, set £910s. A ditto bi-unial, all complete, £5 10s. Bargains. Also Grand Effects. Lecturer’s candle reading lamp, 3s. 3d. ; the ‘‘ Universal "’ 4-wick lantern, 4 inch condensers, £1 28. 6d.; 12 3k coloured slides, 1s. 9d. a box; slipping slides, 6d.; 30 sete of life-model subjects, beautifully coloured, 1g. 3d. each; 50 sets of coloured photos; tales, 1s. each. Splendid value; lists free.—_W. C. Hughes, Brewster House, Mortimer-road, Kingsland, London, N. It is worth your while to pay @ visit to Brewster House, and to see the grand display of high-class optical lanterns, &c., and to get some bargains. KR sale, Bi-unial dissolving view apparatus; dis” solving view lantern (4-inch condensers) ; 4 pairs object glasses; 2 pairs oxyhydrogen burners; 1 Malden’s dissolving tap; 1 Wood's dissolving tap; gas bag and pressure board; 18 feet union disc ; 14 feet disc; 9 feet disc. What offers ?—J. H. Thompson, Newbury. A ae rare. Slides.—Westminster Abbey, 90; St. Paul's Cathedral, 56; Hampton Court Palace, 30; Kew Gardens, 6; Animalsat the Zoo, 90 ; London Views, 100; The Thames, 50; Lynton, Ilfracombe and Clovelly, 30; Hastings, 15; Torquay and Dartmouth, 30; Tunbridge Wells, 10; The Tower, 40. All at 6s. dozen.— John Stabb, 152, Kensington-park-road, Notting Hill, W. : OR sale, Mahogany bi-unial limelight lantern; two sets. of lenses; large size condensers with tilting rack and screws. Suitable for drawing-room or lecture hall; equal to new.—Address, D. B., 80, Taunton-road, Lee, London, S.E. R eee blow-through jets, never used, 15s. the pair, or exchange Stock’slampor slides.—Greenslade, 59, High-street, Weston-Super-Mare. Illustrated Lists free, Effect Slides painted for Wholesale London Houses, in Cambris, Naval Architecture, All kinds of Slides made to order. rY\RIPLE Lantern (Noakes, £50) ; 12 feet linen curtain with poles and cords; Damask valances and side curtains; cords and bobs and a host of other accessories, also a number of dioramic slides, such as Village Blacksmith, etc. Nearly £100 value; will take £25.— Hardman & Thompson, pawnbrokers, 283, North-road, Preston. ALTER TYLER’S Helioscopic Lantern, fitted with Stocks’ lamp, hardly soiled, 66s. ; with fittings for limelight, including good blow-through jet, 12s. extra; Beard’s fine adjustment regulator, 92. ; Beard's new patent ‘‘ Eclipse” carrier, 9s.—Lantern, 41, Marney-road, Clapham Junction, S.W. PAIRS magnificent effect slides (second-hand). ] including ‘‘ Carnival scene, Venice,” day and grand illumination night; worth 15s., price 3s. 9d. the pair. ‘‘ Eddystone Lighthouse," sunset, moonlight, 2s. 6d, the pair, worth 7s. 6d., or good exchange.— Mitchell, Sunnydene, Forest-road, Wood-street, Walthamstow. N exceptional opportunity to purchase oné of the finest triple lanterns by Ottoway, suitable for an institute or literary society, with all improvements, large and small diameter lenses; three sets. three very powerful high-pressure jets, top lantern can be detached, with extra base-board, making three lanterns 1n one, guaran: teed perfect registration, and ready for immediate use. Also best Russian iron lantern for oil and limelight, complets with jet, tripod and stand. Lecturer’s reading desk, lamp and bell in case, two Beard's dissolving carriers, one Davenport ditto, and two lighting ditto, one Hughes’ Pentagraph to be sold with above. The following splendid collection of nearly 600 best coloured slides, nearly all mahogany framed, with exception of few uncoloured, comprising :—Set of picturesque Europe ; Egypt, her Pyramide and Temples; Holy Land, Windsor, and Thames Scenery, Homes of the Highlanders, Rambles Manxland and her Beauties, and a quantity of miscellaneous, comics, effects, and panoramas, alao chromotropes in case, magnificent painted set, illustrating the story of Robinson Crusoe, cost over £20, numbering 34 slides, including two panoramas, with mechanical motions, and 15 mechanical and other effects. With the set, will be given & copy of the manuscript, portions in verse, used by the late George Buckland at the Polytechnic. The whole to be sold in one lot at & great sacrifice.—Oan bo seen any time after three o’clock at Keen’s, 23a, High Holborn, London, w.od. ECHANICAL Effect Slides; 5 house on fire, 12s.; snowstorm, 48.; 15 slipping and tug of war, . 10s.—H. W. Collins, 1, High-street, Lewes.