Magic Lantern - A telling portrait part 3

Funny Faces

part 3

Magic lantern slide showing four black and white photographic portraits. Manufacturer Ernst Plank (E.P.), Set II, Nr 5001. The sets are sold in widths from 4 - 10 cms, provided with a covering glass. The complete series consists of 6 glasses containing four pictures each. Glass 2: Negro - Arabian - Shield bearer - Esquire.

Four portraits on an oblong magic lantern slide, 8 cm wide. Manufacturer unknown.

Three slides from a series called 'Funny Faces', produced by the English firm Millikin & Lawley. They often sold series of slides put together from other sets from other publishers; that makes clear why the style of these slides does not always match.
		One from a set of twelve children magic lantern slides, 22 cm x 7 cm, manufacturer unknown.
Two oblong slides made by an unknown manufacturer each showing four funny portraits.

	Two oblong magic lantern slides respectively showing five little children and four tidy dressed dogs.

A multiple magic lantern slide, colour, dimensions 15 x 4 centimetres (approx. 6"x 1 1/2"). Early 1900's. Five fops wearing a flower as a hat. Note that all these images extend their circular frames, which is very unusual.


		A magic lantern slide set of 12 slides (numbered 1 through 12) which shows Victorians in various poses and expressions.
Four grown-ups and.... four pretty children.
Four portraits on a magic lantern slide probably made by Max Dannhorn.
Magic lantern slides of a clergyman enjoying a glass of wine and another one who is holding and biting a chicken leg. (c1880-86). These are two of a series of six vicar slides that all have to do with greed. The balding vicar has a mischievous expression; the other looks like a real glutton.