Alphonse Giroux Le Phenakisticope

invented in 1832, the Phenakisticope was a first apparatus to show animated pictures, one year later Alphonse Giroux commercialized the idea with offering a hand-held device with a set of discs with various animated pictures, the spectator looks through the slits in the viewing disc and the image is reflected in the mirror, the set is in fine condition, includes a disc holder with wooden handle, 10 disc with various pictures (18cm diameter, two of them stamped on reverse with original Giroux stamp) and one larger viewing disc with holes (probably later), everything with partially restored original box (24.5x24.5cm), a milestone in the history of film and animation