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Lot 569

Sale 960 - American Historical Ephemera & Photography
Nov 15, 2021 11:00AM ET
Live / Cincinnati
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$1,000 - 2,000
Price Realized
$4,688
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[EARLY PHOTOGRAPHY - VIEWERS]. "Pontioscopio" stereographoscope. Manufactured by Carlo Ponti, Venice, Italy. Ca mid19th century.


Ornately carved, collabsible wooden stereographoscope, 22 x 10 x 5 in. (when folded), with magnification lens with 8 in. diameter. Beneath the large lens is a stereoscopic viewer, inscribed on the front “Pontioscopio." With a sliding card holder in the shape of a height adjustable easel (surface wear and few chips to wood, 4 1/2 in. crack in underside of wood base, missing metal piece at right hinge). 

An exceptionally rare stereographoscope.

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