Start Over

The Optical Magic Lantern Journal (October 1899)

Record Details:

Something wrong or inaccurate about this page? Let us Know!

Thanks for helping us continually improve the quality of the Lantern search engine for all of our users! We have millions of scanned pages, so user reports are incredibly helpful for us to identify places where we can improve and update the metadata.

Please describe the issue below, and click "Submit" to send your comments to our team! If you'd prefer, you can also send us an email to mhdl@commarts.wisc.edu with your comments.




We use Optical Character Recognition (OCR) during our scanning and processing workflow to make the content of each page searchable. You can view the automatically generated text below as well as copy and paste individual pieces of text to quote in your own work.

Text recognition is never 100% accurate. Many parts of the scanned page may not be reflected in the OCR text output, including: images, page layout, certain fonts or handwriting.

lv. The Optical Magic Lantern Journal and Photographic Enlarger. GENERAL ADVERTISEMENTS. — Continued, Cae new effect sets in exquisite hand work; unique and unequalled ; new and original subjects and novelties ; The Black Forest Railway ; The Great Fire in Jewin-street, entirely new effects, the building burns down ; The Haunt of the Fairies, a grand set of mechanical effects; The Mistress of the Seas, set of seven paintings and efiects with new movements; an exquisite miniature painting and one effect, the Garden of Gethsemane: The Isle of San Guilio, entirely new; Launching the Lifeboat, with novel and original movements. — Edmund HH. Wilkie, as below. PECIAL series of effects for single lanterns in the best hand painting; also on photo bases; an entirely new departure.—Edmund H. Wilkie, as below. A SERIKS of very beautiful flower studies, worked up in the finest hand work on photographs from nature; these are the finest flower pictures ever produced.—Edmund H. Wilkie, as below. ONDERFUL genre studies; many prize medals; gems of photographic art worked up into highly finished miniatures ; extremely beautiful; each picture tells a tale; a number of these pictures alone would make a successful exhibition; send for lists.—Edmund H. Wilkie, as below. NIMAL studies, snow Studies, frost scenes; elaborately painted at the cost of ordinary commercial work. N.B.—E. H. Wilkie wishes to direct especial attention to the fact that none of his specialities are commercial, but are all special productions.— Edmund H. Wilkie, as below. fee cinta worked up in oil colour, water colour, pure varnish colours, or by the beautiful American process at most reasonable prices; the best werk only; slides prepared by photography or band painting from negatives, drawings, prints from nature, or from written or verbal description ; every class of mechanical movement supplied or invented for special purposes; see testimonials,— Edmund H. Wilkie, as below. Vis improved triple and other lanterns, the results of a quarter of a century’s practical experience ; send for illustrated descriptive pamphlet.— Edmund H. Wilkie, as below. Vo triple lantern by well-known London va maker, complete in special polished cage, with expensively made accessories; very little used; 4 inch condensers, mixed gas and blow through jets; special appliances for shielding the glow from lime from reaching the screen; complete, ready for use; cost £62 128; must be sold at once to an immediate purchaser; half cost would be accepted.-— Edmund H. | Wilkie, 114, Maygrove-road, West Hampstead, London. (PNEMATOGRAPH and 11 films to be sold cheap, seen any time; £18 the lot.—Brakington, 298, Pentonville-road, King’s Cross. 12 FEET lantern sheet and portable bamboo stand, complete, excellent condition, £2; offer considered. — Ebsworth, 75, Lauriston-road, South Hackney. “s CONOMIC" series of lantern effecta principally based on natural photegraphs, many beautiful subjects fully equal to many of the most expensive sets ; & most useful series ; send for list3.—Edmund H. Wilkie, as below. ; of OLAR” mixed gas high power jet (patent applied for), the ideal lantern jet, the most powerful and perfect jet yet produced for use in single, bi-unial or triple lanterns ; send for illustrated descriptive circular. —Edmund H. Wilkie, as below. “ QI0OLAR” high power jets (patent applied for) embrace many important improvements and give an immensely powerful and concentrated pure white light; send for particulars and lists.—Edmund 4. Wilkie, as below. “ QJOLAR” high power jets.—On account of the absolutely perfect combination of the gases, full value is obtained for every inch of gas consumed.— Edmund H. Wilkie, as below. im OLAR" high power jets are the most highly finished and beautifully constructed limelight jets extant; the work being executed by scientific mathematical instrument makers, and not ordinary brass workers.—Edmund H. Wilkie, as below. ‘*QIOLAR” high power jets are adapted for any purpose for which a limelight is required; their interior formation causes them to work smoothly and silently under all pressures and circumstances.—Edmund H. Wilkie, as below. greatest care, are accurately turned and drilled, and composed of selected magnesian limestone; the finest extant ; ordinary size, 23. 9d. per dozen, post free ; large size, 1} inches in diameter, a noble lime, per half dozen, 2s. 3d. post free, packed in air tight tins ; lanternists once using these magnificent limes will use no other.—Edmund H. Wilkie, as below. A with three popular lectures, each illustrated by 80 special slides, most of them coloured, wants partner with limelight Jantern, for suburbs and provinces.—Address, Travel, Office of this paper. | Dares cinematograph films, Edison gauge, 55 feet in length, splendid condition, from 103. each. —Address, Dron, Photographer, Iyne-road, Brondesbury, N.W. cides for sale.—Thames views, including boat race slides, 77 slides uncoloured: Belgium, 50 slides, first-class colouring ; Day in London, 37 uncoloured views of London; Swiss and French views, . 50 uncoloured slides, French standard size; English lake district, 35 uncoloured slides; Views in Oxford, 19 uncoloured slides; Views of London, 66 uncoloured slides ; French exhibition, 1889, including views of Paris, 56 slides; ditto, ditto, French standard size, 46 uncoloured slides and 8 views: 1 each, curtain effect, star effect, lightning effect, dancing skeleton effect— very good, curtain slide ; fountain chromotrope effect, 2 slides; summer and winter effect, 2 slides; Tower of London, 2 slides; castle of Michael Angelo, firework effect, 2 slides; old Royal Exchange, and same on fire, effect, 2 slides ; mosque of Omar effect, 4 slides; aurora borealis, fine slide. A large number of thoroughly good statuary, coloured pictures of well-known peraons, picturesque scenery—beautifully coloured, celebrated places, a large assortment of animals---best colouring, 4 very fine panoramas, 24 movable comics, several silhouette comics, good nights, welcomes, various effects, various chromotropes; all first-class quality, being the collection of a wealthy lantern hobbyist, who has put his slides and apparatus together regardless of cost. A 10 feet screen, 2 Russian iron lanterns, 3 wick lamps, old-fashioned, but thoroughly sood, and a box fitted with trays to take the slides; what offers for the whole lot, or part.—David Mason, Cranleigh, Surrey. Please mention this Journal whea corresponding with Advertisers.