Flick-Book 'Filoscope'

Hammer Price
€528
incl. Buyer's Premium

Estimate
€250 – 300

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%.

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Condition

Manufacture Year

c.1898

Product number

AI_10_15683

British Patent, 1898, November 3, No.23,158. Henry W. Short, The Filoscope, manufactured by license from the Mutoscope & Biograph Syndicate, Ltd., c. 1900, the red and black lithographed tin toy printed "Henry W. Short, Inventor & Patentee, London, Made in England", with brass lever which when turned causes 159 paper strips with 3/4 x 1" halftone photographs of a horse race at the track to flick giving the illusion of motion. The first paper strip printed "Kinetic Photograph giving the effect of living motion. To accomplish this a series of 190 instantaneous photographs are taken in rapid succession at the rate of about 20 per second".