or given as a gift to a fellow student or teacher of the artist’s at the Technic Institute in Nairobi--the address of which is noted on reverse--who brought it back to the states
classic and modern all at once
and I must say the wings on them
which would be used to tag deliveries of freshly caught fish to the businesses that would sell them--in this case a variety of fishmongers in seaport districts of Manhattan and Boston
looking at portraits by Phillips from around 1820 (I've included two in photos) it seems highly likely that this is hers too--they even have matching drapes
SOLD Victorian Magic Lantern Kaleidoscopic Chromotrope #1 antique beach photo or given as a giftI've had a couple of these, but it's been a long time they seem to have become harder and harder to find, and more and more precious. Happily I found two on a recent trip to Pennsylvania, listed individually today. Produced by some makers of magic lantern slides, these mechanical devices were called chromotropes, producing kaleidoscopic effects via two painted glass slides, one of them rotating when one turns the handle; low tech magic! I tried to
