This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 11/17/2022
[MAGIC LANTERNS]. A group of 20 hand-painted color glass slides for magic lanterns. Circa 1800s - early 1900s. Including: 8 glass slides depicting scenes from a French version of Cervantes’ Don Quixote, with captions. [Together with:] 5 glass slides depicting humorous household scenes, with French captions (these slides are 95 x 382 mm). Margins neatly covered in green paper (some soiling, mild wear, some occasional loss to images or captions). [Together with:] 1 glass slide depicting a scene from Le Petit Poucet by Perrault (“Hop-o’-my-Thumb”) (60 x 41 mm). Margins neatly covered in green paper (some soiling, mild wear, minor loss to image and captions). [Together with:] 6 glass circular slides depicting scenes from a German (?) version of Cinderella, with each slide mounted within a wooden housing (slides with diameters of 52 mm). Each slide has a sticker with handwritten note, and with pencil notes on the upper edge of wooden housing (some minor loss or distortion of color paint on slides, some wear, mild soling to wooden housings).