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lot 151 (Photographs, Optical Toys & Science, 3rd Dec, 2025)
Collection of 16 magic lantern slides of Japan, including 14 hand coloured photographic slides with 2 in black and white
Sold for £125 Result including buyers premium More details 2
Magic Lantern Slides, Tea from Curing to Packing and Rural Life
lot 152 (Photographs, Optical Toys & Science, 3rd Dec, 2025)
Collection of 15 magic lantern slides of Chia showing rural life Tea curing process to packing
Sold for £225 Result including buyers premium More details 3
Magic Lantern Slides, Colon, Kingston, Guatemala, etc..
lot 153 (Photographs, Optical Toys & Science, 3rd Dec, 2025)
magic lantern slides, by Dr. Franz Stoedtner, Berlin, photographic slides of Kingston, Jamaica, Colon, Villen, San Lukas, Guatemala, Nigeria, ... read more
Sold for £31 Result including buyers premium More details 6
Magic Lanterm Slide Set, Slum Life in one of our Great Cities, Liverpool, 1892
lot 154 (Photographs, Optical Toys & Science, 3rd Dec, 2025)
collection of 50 photographic magic lantern slides of "Slum Life in one of our Greatest Cities 1892, Liverpool, photographed by Walter Grimshaw of ... read more
Sold for £562 Result including buyers premium More details 3
Japan, 24 Magic Lantern Slides
lot 155 (Photographs, Optical Toys & Science, 3rd Dec, 2025)
Collection of 24 magic lantern slides, dated 1927 with trade label for 'H. L. TOMS 20 Victoria St London', black and white photographs with white ... read more
Estimated at £60 - £80 More details 3
Japan & Its People, Magic Lantern Slides
lot 156 (Photographs, Optical Toys & Science, 3rd Dec, 2025)
Complete numbered set of 24 magic lantern slides titled 'Japan & Its People', coloured transfer printed set
Estimated at £40 - £60 More details 4
Japan, Street Scenes and People
lot 157 (Photographs, Optical Toys & Science, 3rd Dec, 2025)
collection of 11 magic lantern slides of Japanese street scenes and people, by unknown photographer
Sold for £50 Result including buyers premium More details 2
Building in Japan, 20 Magic Lantern Slides
lot 158 (Photographs, Optical Toys & Science, 3rd Dec, 2025)
20 magic lantern slides titled in manuscript 'Building in Japan' numbered 1-20, showing the building of a large traditional house
Sold for £50 Result including buyers premium More details 2
lot 159 (Photographs, Optical Toys & Science, 3rd Dec, 2025)
Japan, collection of 3 magic lantern slides showing Geishas behind wooden bars and on the balcony of a large building.
Sold for £38 Result including buyers premium More details 2
Palestine, Magic Lantern Slides, American Colony Photographers
lot 160 (Photographs, Optical Toys & Science, 3rd Dec, 2025)
large collection OF 136 well photographed magic lantern slides of Palestine contained in 2 pine cases, many slides are marked 'AMERICAN COLONY ... read more
Sold for £938 Result including buyers premium More details 11
Palestine, American Colony Photographers, Magic Lantern Slides
lot 161 (Photographs, Optical Toys & Science, 3rd Dec, 2025)
collection of 20 very fine hand-tinted photographic magic lantern slides of Palestine, with label on most for 'AMERICAN COLONY PHOTOGRAPHERS, VESTER ... read more
Sold for £88 Result including buyers premium More details 2
Magic Lantern Slide Collection Of Franklin Expedition and Polar Interest.
lot 162 (Photographs, Optical Toys & Science, 3rd Dec, 2025)
English, c.1880, slides stamped 'Carpenter & Westly 24 Regent St London' comprising of 32 hand painted wooden mounted slides (6 7/8 x 3 3/4 x 3/8 ... read more
Sold for £1,875 Result including buyers premium More details 10
Magic Lantern Slide, Arctic Snow Village
lot 163 (Photographs, Optical Toys & Science, 3rd Dec, 2025)
English, c.1880, unmarked, in later card slip marked 'Arctic Snow Village Dog Team and Northern Lights or Aurora Borealis', wooden framed slide with ... read more
Sold for £200 Result including buyers premium More details 3
Magic Lantern Slides Relating to Sir John Franklin
lot 164 (Photographs, Optical Toys & Science, 3rd Dec, 2025)
including a nand coloured portrait of Sir John Franklin, the slide impressed 'Newton & Co, Opticians, Fleet St London', a lantern slide with label ... read more
Sold for £300 Result including buyers premium More details 4
Magic Lantern Slides, Hand Painted Polar Regions
lot 165 (Photographs, Optical Toys & Science, 3rd Dec, 2025)
English, c.1870, unmarked, very finely painted polar scenery, including a very good slide of a polar night sky, a handpainted image of a masted ship ... read more
Sold for £250 Result including buyers premium More details 7
Magic Lantern Slide, Arctic Regions, Fata Morgana
lot 166 (Photographs, Optical Toys & Science, 3rd Dec, 2025)
English, c.1870, unsigned, with period manuscript label for 'Arctic Regions Fata Morgana' with hand-painted image of ships with ghostly reflections ... read more
Sold for £50 Result including buyers premium More details 3
Large Collection of Magic Lantern Slides, Polar Scenes
lot 167 (Photographs, Optical Toys & Science, 3rd Dec, 2025)
slides titles include: Arctic Fishing, Arctic Winter Quarters, Esquemaux Encampment, Funeral Arctic Region, Draging Boats Arctic Region, Arctic Ocean ... read more
Sold for £750 Result including buyers premium More details 6
The Town in Slumber Lantern Slide
lot 168 (Photographs, Optical Toys & Science, 3rd Dec, 2025)
'The Town in Silent Slumber - Night', an angel carrying a dead child moves across the night sky. Maker unknown (11 3/4 x 4 3/8 x 3/4 inches), single (Qty: 1) ... read more
Sold for £81 Result including buyers premium More details 1
Magic Lantern Slide, Pull Lever
lot 169 (Photographs, Optical Toys & Science, 3rd Dec, 2025)
English, c.1880, impressed 'Carpenter & Westly 24 Regents St London', pull lever slide titled along the top "pigshead", (Qty: 1)
Sold for £75 Result including buyers premium More details 3
Magic Lantern Slide, Panoramic Faces
lot 170 (Photographs, Optical Toys & Science, 3rd Dec, 2025)
English, c.1870, unsigned, wood-framed panoramic slip. 'Four comic faces', eyes move side to side,(15 x 4 x 3/8 inches), (Qty: 1)
Sold for £12 Result including buyers premium More details 1
Magic Lantern Slides, Astronomical Slides
lot 171 (Photographs, Optical Toys & Science, 3rd Dec, 2025)
a collection of 17 double magic lantern slides, stamped 'MILLIKIN & LAWLEY THE STRAND LONDON', slides 23cm x 11cm
Sold for £138 Result including buyers premium More details 4
Magic Lantern Slides, Collection of 13 Slip Slides
lot 172 (Photographs, Optical Toys & Science, 3rd Dec, 2025)
Collection of 13 Magic Lantern mahogany framed Slip Slides,
Sold for £212 Result including buyers premium More details 4
Magic Lantern Slides, Part Set of Astronomical Slides
lot 173 (Photographs, Optical Toys & Science, 3rd Dec, 2025)
English, c.1880, unsigned but typical of those made by Newton & Co and Carpenter & Westly, slides include: ROUNDIDITY OF THE EARTH - Proved by the ... read more
Sold for £375 Result including buyers premium More details 4
3 19th Century Chinese Silk Puppets
lot 174 (Photographs, Optical Toys & Science, 3rd Dec, 2025)
19th Century Chinese silk puppets, comprising: a figure of an Emperor wearing a long red silk robe and headdress, embroidered in coloured silk along ... read more
Sold for £38 Result including buyers premium More details 7
lot 175 (Photographs, Optical Toys & Science, 3rd Dec, 2025)
English, c.1860, stamped Cary London to the prism housing, constructed of lacquered brass with screw tabel clamp, telescopic stand, prism with filter ... read more
Sold for £362 Result including buyers premium More details 3
lot 176 (Photographs, Optical Toys & Science, 3rd Dec, 2025)
English, early 19th century, unmarked, French polished mahogany case with brass screwed dovetail joints, push/pull brass bound lens to front, fold up ... read more
Sold for £1,188 Result including buyers premium More details 3
Unusual Early French Stereo Viewer
lot 177 (Photographs, Optical Toys & Science, 3rd Dec, 2025)
French, c.1890, unmarked, for 4.5cm x 10.5cm stereo slides, French polished woo, with internal sliding eyepieces to focus via knob to base, length 15. ... read more
Sold for £88 Result including buyers premium More details 3
Gallary Stereo Viewer, J. Lizars
lot 178 (Photographs, Optical Toys & Science, 3rd Dec, 2025)
Scottish, c.1900, ivorine plaque for 'J. Lizars Challenge Glasgow, Edinburgh, London, Belfast Aberdeen Liverpool' viewer constructed of French ... read more
Sold for £175 Result including buyers premium More details 5
Table Top Stereo Viewer "Le Minimus"
lot 179 (Photographs, Optical Toys & Science, 3rd Dec, 2025)
French, patented 23. Feb. 1907 by Lucien Bize and Simeon-Louis Claparède, ivorine label for 'Le Minimus, Stereo Auto Classeur Brevete S.G.D.G.' , to ... read more
Sold for £375 Result including buyers premium More details 7
lot 180 (Photographs, Optical Toys & Science, 3rd Dec, 2025)
English, buit in 1993, stamped to the inside edge 'ROSEMAN MAKER TEWKESBURY' and dated underneath 1993, viewer on French polished turned walnut base ... read more
Sold for £338 Result including buyers premium More details 3
lot 181 (Photographs, Optical Toys & Science, 3rd Dec, 2025)
English or French, c.1860, unmarked, simple hand-held viewer, fixed focus, handle in base with semi-circular support for opaque stereo cards to rear, ... read more
Sold for £62 Result including buyers premium More details 4
Stereo Viewer, Murray & Heath, & Another
lot 182 (Photographs, Optical Toys & Science, 3rd Dec, 2025)
English, dated 1858, signed to the plaque 'Murray & Heath, 43 Piccadilly London, Reg Feb 1858' French polished Bur Walnut, the viewer with rack and ... read more
Sold for £250 Result including buyers premium More details 6
Mahogany Cased Two Day Marine Chronometer, Thomas Mercer
lot 183 (Photographs, Optical Toys & Science, 3rd Dec, 2025)
English, 2nd Quarter of 20th Century, dial engraved ‘THOMAS MERCER LTD, ST. ALBANS’, and nembered 19116, four-pillar single chain fusee movement, ... read more
Sold for £875 Result including buyers premium More details 7
Two Day Admiralty Pattern Survey Chronomater, Thomas Mercer
lot 184 (Photographs, Optical Toys & Science, 3rd Dec, 2025)
English, 2nd quarter of the 20th Century, face engraved 'THOMAS MERCER MAKER TO THE ADMIRALTY Eywood Rd, St Albans', four-pillar, single-chain fusee ... read more
Sold for £625 Result including buyers premium More details 5
Bing No. 130/391 Horizontal Steam Engine
lot 185 (Photographs, Optical Toys & Science, 3rd Dec, 2025)
German, c.1912, arrnged on a large wooden baseboard with metal plate top, with single cylinder horizontal mill engine with geared boiler feed pump, ... read more
Sold for £225 Result including buyers premium More details 4
A late Georgian brass-bound mahogany Medicine / Apothecary Chest
lot 186 (Photographs, Optical Toys & Science, 3rd Dec, 2025)
English, c.1830, the double doors opening to reveal twelve stoppered bottles, most with printed labels for John Bell, Oxford Street or Robert Alsop, ... read more
Sold for £688 Result including buyers premium More details 6
A Victorian mahogany Medicine / Apothecary Chest
lot 187 (Photographs, Optical Toys & Science, 3rd Dec, 2025)
English, c.1860, the lid, with paper label inside for 'Nunn, Hinnell and Skepper, Bury St Edmunds', opening to reveal reveal sixteen stoppered ... read more
Estimated at £200 - £400 More details 15
Victorian Anatomical Human Skull
lot 188 (Photographs, Optical Toys & Science, 3rd Dec, 2025)
19th century Female, the cranium cut to reveal internal structure of head, with location pins and brass hooks, jaw with brass springs, jaw with ... read more
Estimated at £600 - £800 More details 10
A pair of celluloid faux-tortoiseshell Binaural Double Auricle Ear Trumpet Hearing Aids
lot 189 (Photographs, Optical Toys & Science, 3rd Dec, 2025)
possibly French, c.1915, with adjustable steel headband, 14cm wide,
Sold for £81 Result including buyers premium More details 2
A lacquered tinplate Politzer-type 'English Made' Single Extension Ear Trumpet
lot 190 (Photographs, Optical Toys & Science, 3rd Dec, 2025)
English, c.1910, with flattened hemispherical sound receiver, earpiece possibly replaced, 300mm long extended
Estimated at £50 - £70 More details 2
A vulcanite Telescopic Double-Extension Ear Trumpet Hearing Aid
lot 191 (Photographs, Optical Toys & Science, 3rd Dec, 2025)
English, c.1890, of tapering circular form, 33cm long extended,
Sold for £94 Result including buyers premium More details 2
A treen and horn Ear Trumpet Hearing Aid
lot 192 (Photographs, Optical Toys & Science, 3rd Dec, 2025)
conical turned bell, with circular aperture and curved earpiece section, united with brass ring, 17cm long, Footnote: This lot contains ivory and has ... read more
Sold for £188 Result including buyers premium More details 4
A nickel-plated metal bell-shaped Chest Piece from Ray & Selby-Type Binaural Stethoscope
lot 193 (Photographs, Optical Toys & Science, 3rd Dec, 2025)
English, c.1870, incomplete, lacks rubber or gutta-percha tubes and earpieces 7.7cm long,
Sold for £56 Result including buyers premium More details 2
A tinplate Maw Son & Thompson 'Widow's' Ear Trumpet Hearing Aid
lot 194 (Photographs, Optical Toys & Science, 3rd Dec, 2025)
English, c.1900, of tapering form, with angled aperture, painted in gold colour and covered with black lace-edged material, 38cm long,
Sold for £400 Result including buyers premium More details 3
lot 195 (Photographs, Optical Toys & Science, 3rd Dec, 2025)
c. 1875, electro-therapy device, the coil in a turned mahogany case with adjustable iron rod core, with engraved silver-plated plaque 'Grigg's ... read more
Estimated at £200 - £400 More details 2
Cuthbert Andrews, Large X-Ray Tube
lot 196 (Photographs, Optical Toys & Science, 3rd Dec, 2025)
English, c.1900, acid etched 'RELIANCE No.520/106/88 MADE IN ENGLAND, CUTHBERT ANDREWS', with the remains of a retail label, 42cm long Please Note: ... read more
Estimated at £150 - £250 More details 1
Seibert Compound Microscope Outfit
lot 197 (Photographs, Optical Toys & Science, 3rd Dec, 2025)
German, c.1870, engraved 'SIEBERT' to the body tube, microscope on 'Y' shaped base with 'J' shaped support supporting the microscope to the underside ... read more
Sold for £250 Result including buyers premium More details 3
McArthur Hand Held Microscope, Troughton & Simms
lot 198 (Photographs, Optical Toys & Science, 3rd Dec, 2025)
English, c.1960s, engraved to the front 'MADE BY COOKE TROUGHTON & SIMMS LTD AT YORK ENGLAND, M130173', and to the top plate 'COOKE McARTHUR' ... read more
Sold for £1,225 Result including buyers premium More details 2
lot 199 (Photographs, Optical Toys & Science, 3rd Dec, 2025)
English, mid 19th Century, of typical form, with rack and pinion focusing, simple stage, mirror, in fitted French polished case with 6 objectives, ... read more
Estimated at £100 - £200 More details 1
A Pocket Microscope By Cary, London
lot 200 (Photographs, Optical Toys & Science, 3rd Dec, 2025)
English, early 19th Century, engraved to the column 'Cary London' the column screwing into the brass boss at the front of the case, small concave ... read more
Sold for £400 Result including buyers premium More details 7