Metamorphic - Antique and Vintage Cameras

'Les Aventures de Zigomar Nombreuses Transformations'

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Three sets of transformations, fourteen in each set.

Notes:
Retailer's label from Nice.

Metamorphic Trade Card

c. 1880

The two outer leaves are cut horizontally and fold over the inner leaf, the original portraits of Butler, Bismark and Washington can then be combined in various ways. Issued by W Duke & Sons advertising Duke of Durham smoking tobacco.

Notes:
Retailer: St James Hotel Cigar Store, Cor. Fifth and Walnut Sts, St Louis.

Gorgeous Gertie - Guess her Age

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The front of the card appears to show a naked woman in the cut-out section, on opening the card the image is seen to be of a cow and the viewer is told that she is 3.

Post Card

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Post card showing a man's face, when held in one direction the man is frowning when turned upside down the man is smiling. Bamforth & Co. Comic series no. 467. Postal date of 1909.

Camera Obscura

Camera Lucida

Claude Glass

Artist's Filters

Silhouette

Zograscope

Illusion

Multiple Images

Flip Books

Metamorphic

Transformation

Panorama

Peepshow

Shadow Puppets

Japanese Mirror

Lithophane

Polyscope

Kaleidoscope

Peep Egg

Zoetrope

Praxinoscope

Miscellaneous