Mutoscope lens

[sweetmeats]

Stumbled upon this on ebay thought it may be useful to someone doing a restoration project . ebay no. 402211300083

[badpenny]

Click here to see

BP

[gameswat]

Not a Muto lens sadly as far too thin. This guy must have found a box full.

[sweetmeats]

Thank you to gameswat for alerting everyone that the advert was not what it seemed. I posted it in good faith thinking it was "what it said on the packet". As no expert on this, I am glad it was spotted so quickly and trust no one tried to buy one.

[badpenny]

No problems sweetmeats, we enjoy the chase wherever it leads.
So few of us could accurately identify such a specialist item anyway.
All of us rely heavily on those that are prepared to share their knowledge just as we also depend on those happy to signpost.

BP

[ddstoys]

Damn I spotted these and grabbed one straight away. More useless spares.

[gameswat]

DD, oops. If you'd searched on here first you'd have seen an older post where I listed the exact sizes of the two glass Muto lenses.

Large model lense = 4 & 1/4" wide x 2 & 1/8" high - fits cast iron models and big head tin models.

Small model lense = 3 & 7/8" wide x 1 & 9/16" high - fits small head tin models.

The lense you purchased is listed as "5.75 " long x 1.5" wide" . Probably used in some kind of non stereo tabletop card viewer.

[ddstoys]

Yeah just like me to get excited and jump in . Oh well it’s only money