Wooden Box of 12 Magic Lantern Slides – Ernst Plank Circa 1870

DESCRIPTION
Twelve chromolithographed glass slides designed to be projected with a magic lantern.
Magnificent wooden box covered with illustrated paper and bearing the Ernst Plank label.
Themes include:
– Grotesque characters
– Children’s scenes
– Traditional costumes
– Portraits
– Forest scenes
– Monuments
– Crafts and small trades
– Boats

In 1866, Ernst Plank founded the Fabrik Optischer und Mechanischer Waren.
He became one of the earliest manufacturers of miniature steam engines, which he marketed as individual small machines or integrated into locomotives or boats.
He later became the second-largest manufacturer of magic lanterns in Nuremberg, after BING.
These lanterns are generally identifiable by the letters “EP”, topped with a wheel with two wings.
Slide size: 5 × 18 cm
Box size: 20 × 7 × 4 cm

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