[BCMA] Anyone Know the Name of this Object?

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I had to ask the local photography expert but here's the answer!

Very Cool!

That is an Autochrome Lumiére mounted in a Diascope!

A French patent from 1903, it was the principal colour photography process in use before the mid-1930's.

Here is the Wikipedia link:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autochrome_Lumière<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autochrome_Lumi%C3%A8re>

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Hi
I did find this website that might lead somewhere:

http://www.collectorsweekly.com/photographs/overview



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Hello BCMAers,

A member of the public brought by an artifact today that we need help putting a name to. It's thin case with a metal clasp. One half of the case holds a colour tinted glass plate negative and the other holds a mirror. When light is shone on the glass plate negative it reflects the image into the mirror, recreating the image but with a sense of depth. (Images attached of the item open.)

It'd be great to put a name to this artifact so we can search for other examples of it and put it into wider context. We've never seen anything like it before.

Cheers,

Eric Holdijk
Assitant Curator

Bulkley Valley Museum
P.O. Box 2615,
1425 Main Street,
Smithers, BC
V0J 2N0

Phone: 250-847-5322
email: info at bvmuseum.com<mailto:info at bvmuseum.com>

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