Gloria toy magic lantern, (japanned tin box, 17½ in. H)

OBJECT TYPE: Projector
MANUFACTURER: Ernst Plank
NATIONALITY: German
PLACE MANUFACTURED: Germany, Nuremberg
OBJECT NAME VARIATION: Gem magic lantern outfit No. 3
INTRODUCTION DATE: ca. 1900
PRODUCTION DATES: 1900-1910's?
IMAGE SIZE: 2-3/4in. wide
ORIGINAL LIST PRICE: $6.85 (1908)
FUNCTIONAL TYPES:
  magic lantern
  toy

NOTES:
  japanned black "box-type" lantern, with bent elbow chimney and brass
  lens, back flip-up door and side door with "Gloria" plaque
  Montgomery Ward sold a lantern with the same name in 1894 for $8.00
  .
  "They are strictly high-grade lanterns, made of genuine Russia sheet
  iron lacquered, with brass trimmings, finely finished all the way
  through; handsome and fine appearing, as well as throroughly practical
  strong and durable lanterns. The Gloria Lanterns are provided with
  two large size condensing lenses, and a fine, specially ground
  projection lens which is focused by rack and pinion movement.
  "The Gloria Lanterns, together with all the slides, the colored slide,
  the slip slide, the movable scenery slide, the chromotrope, and one
  extra glass chimney, comes packed in a well made hinged cover wooden
  case, and will certainly delight and please any boy or girl who is
  fortunate enough to get one.
  No. 20K2835 Gloria Magic Lantern Outfit No. 3. Exactly the same as
  outfit No. 20K2831, but still larger, using slides 2-3/4 inches wide,
  and producing pictures from 5 to 6 feet in diameter. Shipping weight,
  12-3/4 pounds." (Sears, Roebuck: 1908)
  also came with fifty advertising posters and fifty admission tickets

MATERIAL VIEWED/PROJECTED: glass

OBJECT IDENTIFIER: P711.00051

BIBLIOGRAPHIC REFERENCES:
Hrabalek, Ernst. --Laterna Magica - Zauberwelt und Faszination des optischen Spielzeugs.-- Munich: Keyser, 1985. 102-103.//
George Eastman House Information File - Technology Collection.//