Slide set: Colonel Slasher and the mosquito (comic: Bamforth & Co., 6 slides, 1880s)

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Slide 1**

Colonel Slasher, having been troubled with mosquitoes, had mosquito curtains fixed to his bed. Behold him snoring the happy hours away

Slide 2**

But a hungry mosquito worked his way through the curtain, and attracted by the glow on the colonel's nose settled on it to graze

Slide 3**

Awaking with the pain of the first bite, the colonel seizes a pillow. He aims a terrific blow at the insect

Slide 4**

But he missed his aim and got mixed up in the curtains. General confusion and escape of mosquito

Slide 5**

The more he struggled the more he got entangled. The mosquito resumes his interrupted breakfast

Slide 6**

This is how his housekeeper found him in the morning. Said she, 'He must have been dreaming of that dreadful Irish Crimes Bill again'

** there are alternative versions or views of this slide

Catalogue entries (8)

1891

Catalogue of photographic lantern transparencies and apparatus: season 1891-2 (Bradford: Riley Brothers, 1891), 42

1891

Complete catalogue of lantern slides, dissolving views, magic lanterns etc. (London: UK Band of Hope Union, 1891), C 28

1898

Illustrated catalogue of magic, optical and dissolving view lanterns, lime-light apparatus and slides: season 1898-99 (London: Wrench & Son, 1898), 506

1901

Catalogue of lantern slides: season 1901-2 (Dundee: Peter Feathers, 1901), 60

1905

Catalogue of optical lantern slides (Bradford: Riley Brothers, 1905), 20

1906

Lantern slides, exhibitions and entertainments, lanterns, apparatus, etc. etc.: hire list, season 1906-7 (Newcastle upon Tyne: North of England Temperance League, 1906), 8

1909

Lantern slide catalogue (Glasgow: J. Lizars, 1909), 9

1910

A detailed catalogue of photographic lantern slides, life models &c. (Holmfirth: Bamforth & Co., 1910), 24

Other reference

1888

Walter D. Welford and Henry Sturmey (compilers), The 'indispensable handbook' to the optical lantern: a complete cyclopaedia on the subject of optical lanterns, slides, and accessory apparatus (London: Iliffe & Son, 1888), 284

“A fight to the death with the insect, but the colonel gets the worst of it.”

Lucerna ID 3002061

Record created by Richard Crangle. Last updated 14 May 2024

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Slide set: Colonel Slasher and the mosquito (comic: Bamforth & Co., 6 slides, 1880s)