'Metamorphoser' lantern (automatic lantern, W.C. Hughes, n.d.)

Type of hardware

automatic lantern

Related organisations

manufacturer: W.C. Hughes

in stock of: E.G. Wood, in/after 1894 –

Nation of origin

England

Date of first manufacture

unknown (latest possible: 1894)

Dimensions

unknown

Material(s)

metal / glass

Production

produced in quantity

Original retail price

£5 12s. 6d. with metal body, £9 9s. with wooden body (Wood), in 1894

Catalogue entry

Wood's catalogue of slides, optical lanterns, and dissolving views apparatus: forty-eighth issue (London: E.G. Wood, 1894), 146

Reference

John Barnes, ‘The Barnes Museum: catalogue excerpts’ in NMLJ 1.2 (February 1979), p. 6

Lucerna ID 2000085

Record created by Richard Crangle and Anastasia Kerameos. Last updated 2 March 2020

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'Metamorphoser' lantern (automatic lantern, W.C. Hughes, n.d.)