Children with Magic Lantern - German Mechanical Postcard
This is one of the postcards we got at last months postcard show. I think it might be the most special. If it is possible to be better than mint condition this one is. It is a German mechanical postcard of a Chromatrope slide being projected by three children with a simple magic lantern. When the cardboard wheel that can be seen extending beyond the edges of the card is turned the colored patterns spin like a kaleidoscope. I wish I could show the movement here. It is a chromolithograph and the children and magic lantern are embossed. The only identification is the German trademark "Depose D.R.G.M." and "L. & B. - B." An email from a correspondent in Switzerland tells me that the initials are for Littauer & Boysen from Berlin. Thanks, Tom!
Children with Magic Lantern - German Mechanical Postcard
This is one of the postcards we got at last months postcard show. I think it might be the most special. If it is possible to be better than mint condition this one is. It is a German mechanical postcard of a Chromatrope slide being projected by three children with a simple magic lantern. When the cardboard wheel that can be seen extending beyond the edges of the card is turned the colored patterns spin like a kaleidoscope. I wish I could show the movement here. It is a chromolithograph and the children and magic lantern are embossed. The only identification is the German trademark "Depose D.R.G.M." and "L. & B. - B." An email from a correspondent in Switzerland tells me that the initials are for Littauer & Boysen from Berlin. Thanks, Tom!