- Subject
- Pre-cinema & optical toys
- Item type
- Object
- Makers
- Beilby Bristol
- Provenance
- Purchased from Dr. Reginald S. Clay in 1944.
- Primary inscriptions
- 'BEILBY BRISTOL / [Royal Coat of Arms] Dr. Brewsters Kaleidoscope / By permission of the Patentee'
- Object type
- Kaleidoscope
- Inventory No
- 76530
- Accession Number
- 1944-1/part
Description
Large copper alloy parlour-type kaleidoscope with tripod, five object chambers one fitted in the kaleidoscope and four loose, two glass discs (one clear and one opaque), and coloured silks in a fitted wooden box.
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