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Photographic
Equipment sold by E Lennie, Edinburgh - When?
Magic Lantern |
Magic Lantern (boxed)
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Reproduced with acknowledgement to
Artur Thorburn, Stockholm, Sweden.
Magic Lantern
©
Reproduced with acknowledgement to
Artur Thorburn, Stockholm, Sweden.
Magic Lantern Slides
©
Reproduced with acknowledgement to
Artur Thorburn, Stockholm, Sweden.
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Lennie |
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Thank you to Artur Thorburn,
Stockholm, Sweden for providing the photographs above of a magic lantern.
The lantern was sold by E Lennie, Edinburgh. I don't know whether E Lennie
manufactured it or bought it in.
Lennie's business traded in
Edinburgh from1840 until 1959 - under the name of E Lennie from 1857
until 1901,
The following extracts are taken
from the Edinburgh & Leith Post Office Directories:
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14 Leith Walk |
1840
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J
Lennie establishes his business:
- jeweller and perfumer |
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1843
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The
business becomes J Lennie:
- jeweller and optician |
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1854 |
J
Lennie dies. The business passes to his widow Eliza Lennie,
but continues to trade as J Lennie |
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46 Princes Street |
1857 |
The
business becomes E Lennie:
- optician |
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1862 |
The
business becomes E Lennie:
- optician and manufacturer of photographic apparatus. |
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1865 |
The
business becomes E Lennie, optician and Jeweller |
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1873 |
The
business becomes E Lennie:
- optician and spectacle maker |
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1902 |
The business becomes J & J Lennie.
One of the owners (Joseph C Lennie) was President
of Edinburgh Photographic Society, 1900-01 |
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1907 |
The
business becomes Lennies |
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1923 |
The
business becomes E & J Lennie:
- optician and spectacle and eyeglass maker. |
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5 Castle Street |
1954 |
The
business continues as E & J Lennie |
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1959 |
The
business closes |
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
The trade directory details above
have been taken from the book 'Brass & Glass' (TN Clarke,
AD Morrison-Low and ADC Simpson) published by the National Museum
of Scotland. ISBN
0-948636-06-8
This book gives fuller details of
the business of Lennie and of many other scientific instrument
making workshops in Scotland. |
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19th Century
Magic Lantern Shows |
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Magic lantern shows were popular in
the late nineteenth century.
EPS
(Edinburgh Photographic Society) held several
Popular Meetings each year from
the 1860s until around 1900.
These were usually Magic Lantern
shows. They attracted attendances of up to 1,000 members of the public.
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Question |
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Manufactured When?
Artur Thornburn asks when this
magic lantern might have been manufactured. If you can help to
answer this question, please
e-mail me and I'll pass on the information to Artur.
Thank you.
- Peter Stubbs: October 18, 2006 |
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Reply |
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Thank you to Bryan Gourlay,
Biggar, Lanarkshire, Scotland for providing the following advice.
Bryan wrote: |
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Free Advice
"The Magic
Lantern Museum, San Antonio, Texas, offers free identification of makers, dates
and origin.
See web site:
www.magiclanterns.org"
Bryan Gourlay, Biggar, Lanarkshire, Scotland: October 20, 2006 |
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