The pocket rotoscope

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The Rotary Photographic Co., Ltd., produced both a large and a small collapsible tin metal stereoscopic viewers under patent #442342. This is the small version. Both were designed to resemble a book when closed. This viewer contains eleven Rotoscope cards: five views from the Paignton Series, and six views from the Torquay Series, eleven cards in total. -- description by Mindell Dubansky in consultation with Lynn Heckman

"Works: West Drayton, Midd. Patent Rd. No. 442,342. With 12 real photographic stereograms. Views, statuary, celebrities, children, comic scenes, etc. Price 1-." -- Cover

The pocket rotoscope

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