Gebrüder Bing: Instructive Optical Toys
A 1906 trade catalogue from the Nuremberg toy manufacturer Gebrüder Bing, issued in English to sell magic lanterns, toy cinematographs and stereoscopes to retailers and export buyers. Wood-engraved product views show tin-bodied lanterns with tall chimneys, brass lens barrels, geared film cranks and slide strips, each keyed to a model number and set on a light cast shadow, useful as period apparatus silhouettes, catalogue-page layout, or numbered figure labels.
