D10_001618 Donkey puzzle card trick

Item Reference: 001618
Category: Toys and Games
Format: Ephemera
Description: Gifted conjuring trick of a donkey puzzle, depicts two donkeys and two clowns, found in Shredded Wheat cereal from the late 50s to the early 60s.
Date: c. 1959
Further Information: The solve of this trick results in the illusion of the donkeys running, explained in the link below.
Links: Donkey puzzle explained

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D22_006604 Johnson J-20 Developing Tank

Item Reference: 006604
Category: Photography
Format: Artefact
Description: Plastic cylindrical developing tank with film spiral and inner core. Lid features calculation conversions for developing times.
Date: 1949-1951
Further Information:  Does not feature the spring in the core that was introduced in 1951
Links: PDF of instructional manual

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D22_006603 Patterson Contact Printer and Safelight

Item Reference: 006603
Category: Photography
Format: Artefact
Description: Yellow plastic Paterson contact printer and safelight, with black power cord, also three red printing masks, a caution note, and in original red box with a textured exterior. Also in the box were two Ilford-branded darkroom clips
Date: Mid-to-late 1950s
Further Information:  Paterson darkroom products were represented under the R. F. Hunter Ltd banner, as shown on the caution note – Paterson did not start trading purely under their own name until the mid-1960s. The product packaging does not bear its distinctive logo, introduced in 1963. It is the R. F. Hunter logo that appears on the red box.
Links:

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D22_006592 Johnson Thermometer Stirring Rod

Item Reference: 006592
Category: Photography
Format: Artefact
Description: Johnson thermometer stirring rod in original cardboard box with a textured finish, inside is the thermometer and instruction and warning pamphlets. The thermometer is housed in a cardboard tube to allow for stirring, though differs from the instructions description of a black plastic mould
Date: c. 1950
Further Information: 
Links:

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D22_001814 Johnson Exactum Combined Printer and Darkroom Lamp

Item Reference: 001814
Category: Photography
Format: Artefact
Description: Johnsons ‘Exactum’ combined printer and darkroom lamp, in an original box packaging with an instructional pamphlet, and a sachet of printing masks. It is a varnished wooden box with a chamber for a bulb that acts both as a safelight and exposure, with a knob used to create this exposure.
Date: c. 1949
Further Information: 
Links:  Detailing the Exactum as part of ‘Johnsons No. 4 Developing and Printing Outfit’

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