D22_001818 Ensign Miniature Optiscope Slide Projector Set with Two Slides

Item Reference: 001818
Category: Photography
Format: Artefact
Description: Ensign Miniature Optiscope and slide projector set with leather travel case. The Optiscope has a metal exterior, adjustable focus lens, and is electricity-powered with a bulb still inside. Also are, still in their boxes, a heat-resistant transparent glass plate, and a filter for colour protection to be fitted over the focus lens. Also are two slides, depicting a page from a book and a photograph of a woman about to be shot from a canon as published in The Strand magazine 1897
Date: 1930s
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leather travel case containing ensign optiscope — D22_001818_1

opened leather travel case showing optiscope inside — D22_001818_2

open travel case with opstiscope and accompanying accoutrements laid out — D22_001818_3

optiscope with power lead attached — D22_001818_4

optiscope from the front on — D22_001818_5

side on view of the optiscope — D22_001818_6

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close up of the optiscopes projection lens — D22_001818_8

close up of the optiscope projection lens from an angle — D22_001818_9

optiscope with top removed displaying interior bulb and two circular convex glass pieces — D22_001818_10

birds eye of the optiscope with top removed displaying interior bulb and two circular convex glass pieces — D22_001818_11

green cardboard box containing heat resisting glass, also manufactured by ensign — D22_001818_13

ajar green cardboard box containing heat resisting glass, also manufactured by ensign with the glass neatly fitting inside — D22_001818_14

heat resisting glass plate with black fabric trim — D22_001818_15

green box containing a filter for colour projection also manufactured by ensign — D22_001818_16

open green box displaying the colour protecting filter — D22_001818_17

colour protecting filter, which is small and round glass with a metal black ring and clasp — D22_001818_18

colour protecting filter attached to the optiscope's protections lens — D22_001818_19

one of the slides displaying a photograph of a page from a book concerning odd gravestone engravings — D22_001818_20

one of the slides displaying a photograph of a woman about to be shot from a canon as publcished in The Strand magazine 1897 — D22_001818_21