Vintage Glass lantern Slides

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Whilst looking for things to sell to raise funds for my 'short' college course, I came across some old glass slide photographs. I cannot remember where I bought them from, some auction or other?

Although I have owned them for some time I never really looked at them closely until now. On the corner of each is a label " Makers Newton & Cairns 43 Museum St. London WCI". I had to remove a little of the surround to reveal this label.

I did a little research and all I could find at first was a website with the following information and it looks like Cairns was Recorded as a daguerreian in Hillsborough, N.C. 1850. Newton was listed as a daguerreian in Hillsborough, N.C., 1857

Not sure if this was the correct 'makers' and having looked for more information found a listing in a auction catalogue that read:

• Magic Lantern and glass slides c1900, consisting of Lantern by Newton & Co Makers London W.I. and approx 200 glass slides of Europe some Australia.

I then found a web site that identifies the business address and the company and this looks more like the actual 'makers'. Its an interesting read and its about three quarters of the way down the page.

On one of the glass slides is a sign which reads "Herbesthal" which if correct is in Belgium.

I will have to see what else I can find but have to get on with Ebaying for the time being. I did find this nice old illustration of a vintage cinema projector in an old 1930's book that I was 'breaking'.

What do you think of it 'framed' its only a 'mock' up using a framing suppliers website but I think its neat. I was thinking of selling the print on my Ebay along with some old advertising I have for cameras. Its been a while since I have bought any old film cameras or photography equipment but will be at an auction this weekend so who knows?

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Twelve Old Films!

I have been doing some detective work regarding the old films I mentioned before and have discovered a couple of things. On the one box is written "Nafooey" or it looks like the word "nafooey" which if correct is a place in Ireland?

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One of the other boxes has written on it the word "enigal"? Not sure if that's right and cannot find anything on google or google maps, will have to keep looking.

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There are ten films pictured here and the other two are in the Ilford Tonelle box wrapped in black paper. 

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It looks like some of the film are photos of Ireland, possibly holiday photo's, who knows but as they are all from the 1930's it will be interesting to see whats on them. They may not even develop because of their age but it will be interesting to see.

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Almost went to college!

I was planning to attend a college course and learn how to develop old films but could not afford to at this time. Its only a short course, one evening per week for eight weeks  and hopefully I will attend the next course. The reason I wanted to go was, apart from learning how to develop old film, I could develop some old film I own.

At the beginning of the year I bought a box full of old photography equipment, I think I have mentioned this before, and amongst the contents were a load of old films. Twelve to be exact and all dating from the 1930's which has got to be worth developing?

They may not even develop but it would be interesting to see whats on them? The box I had won at a local auction looked to be from one source and amongst the 'goodies' was also some old glass slides.

Ironically,it was cheaper to attend the course than to send these off to be developed plus I get to learn something new, who knows I may even start developing my own film! Oh well! I will get round to it soon.