Photography Objects > Stereoscopy

Holms Wood Stereoscope with Green Velvet Lining and Stereocard.

Item#: CPS763

SOLD

 

Holms Wood Stereoscope with Green Velvet Lining and Stereocard. - click to enlarge.

This is a wood stereoviewer with folding handle The viewer has two lenses at a set distance in the wooden hood which is lined in green velvet. The pictures can be moved vertically on the slide holder in order to focus them. These devices became popular in the middle of the 19th century. This is a Holmes type stereoscope, named after its inventor, Oliver Wendell Holmes (1860). Stereocard is included