Lapierre Ball Lampascope On Oil Lamp Circa 1870 Magic Lantern

LAPIERRE Ball Lampascope, circa 1870.

Polychrome lamp-mounted model, petroleum lighting.

Sold with a magic lantern plate depicting female characters in action.

The Lapierre Ball Lampascope is a model of magic lantern, the ancestor of cinema, manufactured by the Lapierre company in the late 19th century, circa 1870-1880. This projection device, designed in particular for children, was mounted on a kerosene lamp that served as a light source for projecting images onto glass plates. The Ball Lampascope was generally made of polychrome tinplate.

An example of this lampascope is preserved at the Cinémathèque Française.

At first, this lantern was dubbed the "lantern of fear" and then "magic" because of the fascination these images held for the public.Lapierre was the 1st manufacturer of toy lanterns in France in the second half of the 19th century.

The magic lantern is the ancestor of projection devices, allowing painted images to be projected onto glass plates through a lens, via the light of a candle or oil lamp.

Lampascope height: 27 cm
Height with lamp: 52 cm
Glass plate size: 6.5 x 22.5 cm

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