Magic lantern

Manufacturer	Jean Schoenner.
Place	Nuremberg (Germany)
Date	ca. 1880
Collection	Francesc Junyent
Register	27796

Magic lantern for domestic use made by Jean Schoenner, with a spherical body of polished brass and a long flue. As a medium for the optics and the glass slide, it incorporates a black lacquered figure representing the god Atlas of Greek mythology (who was usually depicted carrying the globe on his shoulders). This lantern was sold in three different sizes. The toy maker Jean Schoenner began production in Nuremberg in 1875. Twenty years later, his company had two hundred and fifty employees who manufactured mainly optical toys and magic lanterns, but also tin steam engines. In the last decade of the nineteenth century, this firm probably manufactured hundreds of thousands of magic lanterns, but from 1904-1906 production ceased permanently and it disappeared.

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