Roul' Scope

Hammer Price
€720
incl. Buyer's Premium

Estimate
€1,000 – 1,200

This item is subject to margin scheme taxation and the premium is 24% if it remains in the EU. For shipments to a third country (outside the EU), the premium is 20%.

AUCTION CLOSED – Thank you for your participation!

Condition

B-

Manufacture Year

c.1897

Product number

AI_12_19950

a copy of the earlier produced Emile Reynaud Praxinoscope, a strip with 12 pictures is placed around the inner surface of a spinning cylinder where the images are reflected by a inner circle of 12 mirrors, when turned the rapid succession of images producing the illusion of motion, the central candle-holder and the lamp shade are missing, the 6 original picture series are included (a juggler, a girl fishing, a swimmer, a girl juggling a roll on her legs, a girl making soap bubbles, a girl feeding chickens),