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Antiques! => Antique Questions Forum => Topic started by: Dom6663 on July 23, 2011, 01:47:42 PM
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Hello friends! I was going through my garage and found these glass slides. With many vintage photos and photo equipment. However I cant find out what they are exactly? Any help you can offer is very appreciated! They appear to be glass with painted art on them in some cardboard/paper edging. Some appear to be actual photos (or have the detail of them) Others cartoons or folk art.
http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/221/27200718517122821191910sp.jpg/
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Reminds me of greeting cards !!
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I wonder if these were used in a movie theater years ago.
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For some reason these remind me of postage stamps.
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They are magic lantern slides. I have a magic lantern! I'll go find a link for reference.
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http://brightbytes.com/collection/magic2.html
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Could be !! Didn`t think of that !!
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More...
http://shop.ebay.com/i.html?_from=R40&_trksid=p5197.m570.l1311&_nkw=magic+lantern+slides&_sacat=See-All-Categories
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Wow I would have never thought of that! I don't know how early they are or what they are worth? Does anyone have an opinion on that? Or atleast what you would personally pay for them individually? I have a friend of mine who wants to buy them from me but now they seem more interesting than I had anticipated!
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Here is a list of completed sales on ebay. You'll just kind of have to browse for ones similar to yours. ;) I would say right around $10 each. Very late 1800's-early 1900s.
http://completed.shop.ebay.com/i.html?_nkw=magic+lantern+slides&_in_kw=1&_ex_kw=&_sacat=See-All-Categories&_okw=magic+lantern+slides&_oexkw=&_adv=1&LH_Complete=1&_udlo=&_udhi=&_samilow=&_samihi=&_sadis=200&_fpos=Zip+code&_fsct=&LH_SALE_CURRENCY=0&_sop=12&_dmd=1&_ipg=50
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Are yours actually hand painted or are they transfer printed? You might be able to tell around the edges if it has a perfectly straight line or if it has brush strokes.
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I cant tell. Ill take a detailed picture with the slide viewer as a background so maybe you could tell me. They appear to have brush strokes but I cant feel any distinct ones.
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http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/687/slidee.jpg/
The full size view should be big enough that you can see. Thanks!
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Posting the size of these slides would help determine if they are magic lantern slides for home use or movie theater slides. Some info http://www.learnaboutmovieposters.com/newsite/index/articles/glassslides.asp
Something else to ponder ...http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_film
In the silent era of film, marrying the image with synchronous sound was not possible for inventors and producers, since no practical method was devised until 1923. Thus, for the first thirty years of their history, films were silent, although accompanied by live musicians and sometimes sound effects and even commentary spoken by the showman or projectionist.
Illustrated songs were a notable exception to this trend that began in 1894 in vaudeville houses and persisted as late as the late 1930s in film theaters.[7] In this early precursor to the music video, live performance or sound recordings were paired with hand-colored glass slides projected through stereopticons and similar devices. In this way, song narrative was illustrated through a series of slides whose changes were simultaneous with the narrative development. The main purpose of illustrated songs was to encourage sheet music sales, and they were highly successful with sales reaching into the millions for a single song. Later, with the birth of film, illustrated songs were used as filler material preceding films and during reel changes.[8]
In most countries the need for spoken accompaniment quickly faded, with dialogue and narration presented in intertitles, but in Japanese cinema it remained popular throughout the silent era.
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The box they are in which appears to be the original box that held them says 8cmx10.5cm on the back. I dont have a ruler handy but using the sides of the slide viewer i can vaugley read 4inx3in which matches the 8cm (3.1in) by 10.5cm (4.1in)