The Catalog
Everything currently on our floor or in short-term storage. Newer acquisitions in italics; items marked as recently sold can often be replicated on request.
Nuremberg tin-plate lantern with brass lens barrel, chimney intact. 18 period slides. Converted to electric; original burner boxed.
24 hand-tinted views of the 1893 Chicago World's Fair by T. H. McAllister, New York. Original mahogany frames. Colors unusually strong.
Post-war Filmo 70 in the crinkle-finish case. Runs quiet, threads clean, lamp house cool. Includes 400-ft reel and spare belt.
Six sealed 100-ft rolls of Kodak Ektachrome 160 Type A, 16mm, expired 1993. Cold-stored since new. Discontinued stock.
Brass Petzval portrait lens by Voigtländer, Vienna era, ~5-inch focal length. Original stops, rack focus smooth, glass unetched.
Scovill mahogany-and-brass half-plate view camera, ~1878. Bellows supple, light-tight, one original plate holder. Body only, no lens.
London-made brass compound scope, serial 8842, on Watson's stiff-limb stand. Three original objectives, all clean.
Black-crackle finish dissecting scope with paired paddle mirrors and rotating stage plate. Serial dated to 1932.
Forty-eight diatom slides in a fitted mahogany cabinet. Hand-lettered species labels, one drawer of arranged mounts.
London Fortin mercury barometer in mahogany cabinet. Mercury intact, reads within 0.5mb of modern reference.
8-inch Short & Mason aneroid in an oak wall case. Movement calibrated, silvered dial gently retoned.
Paris-made clockwork drum recorder, temperature and humidity on paper charts. Runs, writes, satisfies.