You are right...this beautiful fantascope belongs in a great collection, or....a museum.
I have forwarded this email on to Dennis Waters who is an expert historian on cameras.
Perhaps he will have some ideas for you.
Meanwhile, why not contact the Smithsonian Institute in Washington, DC ?
Good luck,
Cynthia
On Sat, May 28, 2011 at 7:44 AM, Thomas Weynants <thomas.weynants@telenet.be> wrote:
Dear members,
Some twenty years after the accidental finding of the Fantascope I came to the decision of selling this item from my private collection.
Unfortunately, since Belgium has no musea which valorize historical (pre)film & media collections I'm thinking on selling abroad to avoid this 'one of a kind' item will end in a depot.
Because of the rarity of the apparatus (and importance in [pre]film history) I hope the Fantascope will find its final home in a museum with permanent public display of the phantasmagoria lantern.
Please reply, only with serious proposals, to thomas@visual-media.eu.
Best wishes,
Thomas
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Visual Media displays a very wide field of wondrous devices which opens a lot of opportunities for research and discovering in the field of Media Archeology.
To find out, visit the online Archeological Media_Museum of Early Visual Media.
http://www.visual-media.eu
All requests are welcome via this group.
Thomas Weynants
thomas@visual-media.eu
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Cynthia
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Visual Media displays a very wide field of wondrous devices which opens a lot of opportunities for research and discovering in the field of Media Archeology.
To find out, visit the online Archeological Media_Museum of Early Visual Media.
http://www.visual-media.eu
All requests are welcome via this group.
Thomas Weynants
thomas@visual-media.eu
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