Whereas with oil filled object chambers in most kaleidoscopes – you can either see a little hole was drilled and then filled, where they put in the glycerin. Tink – the oil filled spheres that are individually for sale, look like marbles and there is no way to see where they were sealed. His 2 inch glass orb sells for about $175. the rest are of my personal Rosenfeld kaleidoscope and images from such.
The oil filled object cases have images that continue to move and change because the pieces of glass are drifting in the oil.įirst picture is the Brewster kaleidoscope image from glass ampules. The most beautiful image kaleidoscopes (in my opinion) are the oil filled object cases, which contain dichroic and other stained glass. YOu may think they are ampules because of the twist, but they are not. The object case picture shown has many, many pieces of just plain twisted and formed regular glass and dichroic glass. Most people buying an original Brewster kaleidoscope do so only for the collector’s historic value and not for the beautiful image. They were about 1/4th inch by 2 inches, and the image consisted of these oblong spears of colors, and they were a dry cell so the ampules had to be manually turned by twisting the object case. For the most part, they contained primary color ampules of colored water or oil. Considering the techniques and glass available today, the Brewster ampule kaleidoscope image would be very boring. Since I make kaleidoscopes and am the webmaster for a gallery that has hundreds of kaleidoscopes (and I have the Rosenfeld glass kaleidoscope Tink mentioned) I want to tell you that the picture you have of the object case image – for the most part- is NOT ampules. Hope you can find some more info on them. Patents describe the items and I was hoping that would help. I tried looking on the Patent site but it was having trouble with probably too many people on the site. The scope is canted at a downward angle on a turned mahogany stand with central baluster standard and flared dish The chamber box contains multi-colored glass twists and rods, cuts of German sheet glass in various forms, and his liquid-filled ampules, patented in 1873 - all of which are exposed to light through the 3-inch lens, revealing various changing geometric patterns. The cardboard tubular barrel is covered with black pebbled stamped paper, with cylindrical eye piece at one end, and with brass-mounted chamber box on the other end turned by hand with 6-brass spokes. 1870s, black cloth over cardboard, brass mounted, mahogany stand, height 14 inches. manufacturer, Providence, Rhode Island, Table Parlor Kaleidoscope, c. Bush (1825-1900, American, born Germany) designer, C.G. They used to produce the ampules for other artists.Ĭharles G. Im really the curious george LOL Also Dennis and Dianne Falconer but Im not sure if they still make scopes. I wrote two galleries and asked if they could perhaps help me out.
Kaleidoscope oil cell how to#
Ok Sherry Moser and Mark Tickle both make those, but I cannot find any information on how to contact them. After further research after posting my links I realized those wouldnt work either hee hee Learn something new everyday! I was just trying to reply to you with some contact information but Im having trouble finding any for these two people. Its searching around my 5000 or more favorite links that is the problem LOL Luckily most of them are in catagories If these arent the right ones I may have a couple more sites that might be of help. I didnt search around this site but it probably has them as well This goes directly to the page, the item number and description is PERF just scroll down for prices and look next to PERF (these are the tiny vials) If you click on the words next to the vial it gives you a larger picture. Just type in the words tiny vial and it takes you right to the exact vial Im talking about. When you get to the page on the left hand side of the screen will be a search box. Ok for some stupid reason no matter what page your on, this shows the front page address. The third site you could just search around and see if they have them. The first two links go directly to what your looking for. You can buy these also from specialty companies and they are empty, clean, tiny glass vials. Perfume companies used to give these out with samples. Im not sure if these are small enough but they are pretty darn small. Ok Im one of those weirdos who loves glass bottles in every type and awhile back I collected a few favorite sites for bottles and vials etc LOL
0 kommentar(er)
