RARE SET: VERASCOPE F40 Vintage Stereoscope 300+ Stereoviews Wooden storage box

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RARE SET: VERASCOPE F40 Vintage Stereoscope 300+ Stereoviews Wooden storage box :
$1250.00

RARE VINTAGE FRENCH SET:STEREOVIEWER ( STEREOSCOPE), 300+ SLIDES and STORAGE BOX.

-VERASCOPE F40 ;

- 300+ Verascope F40 stereoviews;

- Wooden storage box for VerascopeF40 and its views – EXTREMELY RARE.

Dimension of the woodenstorage box: 50cm x 36cm x 30cm (19 ½’ x14’ x 12 7/8’)

This set is large and very heavy around 20 kg .So, the shipping rate is high.

Pleaselook at the photos for a visual description and feel free to ask any questions.

This is indeed a very rare find for anystereoscope collector.

Brief history of the Richard company.

This company was founded in 1845 in Lyon, France by Felix Richard.

In 1882 Jules Richard formed a partnership with his younger brother Max, as “Richard Frères”, and although this was dissolved in1891.The Richard company was particularly associated with a range of scientificinstruments: barometers, thermometers, chronographs and so on .

The company never produced miscellaneous photographicapparatus but concentrated exclusively onstereoscopic equipment.

The Verascopestereocameras (Stereoscope) wasthe basis of this entire side of the business. It was patented in 1891, becoming thebest-selling stereoscopic camera of the period. Central to the latter was the Taxiphote viewer, patented in 1899.

Richard’sCompany was one of the great scientific instrument makers and designers of thatage.