Magic Lantern - The magic lantern on picture postcards part 3

Magic Lantern
Picture Postcards 3.


I should have been gloomy here, but........... British comic postcard, printed by James Bamforth, Holmfirth, who started as a manufacturer of magic lantern slides and later began to produce photographic postcards, initially from the same negatives as the slides. Soon the success of this venture began to surpass the production of slides.
	This so called "Biedermeier Glückwunschkarte" was published around 1810 in Vienna by Joh. Neidl. The card is numbered No. 35. The 'projected' image can be changed by means of a built-in revolving disc with different pictures. The text on this image reads 'Lebe wie Du wünschest' (Live as you like). The poem says: Es soll dein künftig Glück, Nur meinen Wünschen gleichen. So wird es, glaube mir, Das höchste Ziel erreichen. (When your future happiness will correspond to my wishes, it will achieve the highest destination.) This valuable (c. € 450) greeting card measures 10 x 7,3 cm.
Another Biedermeier type movable card, published in Augsburg, Germany around 1810. Sizes about 3 1/4" x 4" (8 x 10 cm). When the tab of this early valentine card is pulled, two scenes appear out of the magic lantern on cupid's back. The caption reads: 'The theatre of Love, a drama in 2 acts'. Photo: ©Pierre Patau, antiquetoysandgames.com.

Two marvellous mechanical postcards with a dazzling chromatrope effect. The first one shows a triple of cupids playing around a heart; the other a water mill with a colourful wheel in winter (c. 1912). The chromatrope effect comes into being when the cardboard discs inside the cards are rotated. No publisher or series mentioned. Size: approx. 3.5" x 5.5" (9 x 14 cm). (See also: Mechanical slides, Chromatropes.)
	Another chromatrope effect post card showing three children playing with a magic lantern. Probably Belgian.
	Real Chromatrope.
A contribution of Jean-Philippe Salier, France.	The Mistery Card 3. Interesting puzzle card, showing a kind of faun using a magic lantern to project the aim of the puzzle: Can you explain it? Cut out the three pieces following the dotted lines but close to the block-edges. Then place the pieces together and you will see 13 cards. Reverse the places of nos 1, 2 and you will see 12 cards.

A postcard of a magic lantern made by Aubert in France, c. 1870. This postcard was published in Germany in the 1980s or 1990s. It is approx. 4" x 6" size.	Very rare English postcard, advertising 'LANTERNS STRETFORD'. Name and address of the business are overprinted in red with a new name and address.
Vintage postcard, Japanese art, c. early 1900's. A child using a magic lantern to project pictures of dogs at the wall. Art Deco style?

Very special postcard. It's made of metal and a replica of a vintage enamel advertising plate for Ivens & Co, Amsterdam. C.A.P. Ivens was the founder of the Dutch firm CAPI and father of the famous film-maker Joris Ivens. The company sold photographic equipment and also magic lanterns. The picture is signed 'v. Caspel'. De card is from a series of cards on 'nostalgic posters and enamel plates from former days', published by Nimpex, Holland.