SOLD Victorian Magic Lantern Kaleidoscopic Chromotrope #1 prple and then I noticed the

and then I noticed the tenderly hand-stitched repairs at each of the corners

as if done by an artist whose work I have seen somewhere but can't place

I purchased this painting from an online seller

Some paint loss as evident

SOLD Victorian Magic Lantern Kaleidoscopic Chromotrope #1 prple and then I noticed theI've had a couple of these, but it's been a long time they seem to have become harder and harder to find, and more and more precious. Happily I found two on a recent trip to Pennsylvania, listed individually today. Produced by some makers of magic lantern slides, these mechanical devices were called chromotropes, producing kaleidoscopic effects via two painted glass slides, one of them rotating when one turns the handle; low tech magic! I tried to