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Underwood & Underwood
The \"Perfecscope\" Stereoscope Viewer
The \"Perfecscope\" is in excellent condition with a collection of 6 cards.
The viewer and cards date back to the turn of the last century, the viewer is in perfect condition and produces an amazing 3-D image when viewed. It is missing the card holder attachment, but the cards are still viewable when held in front by hand.
The viewer has a folding handle, the trim around the viewing edge is inmuseum quality condition! The silver hardware is all intact.There is no rust or corrosion to the hardware. Upon very close examination, you can see that there are no defects other than the missing cardholder to this beautiful turn of the century \"Perfecscope\" example! (see pictures)
The company was founded in 1881 in Ottawa, Kansas,by two brothers, Elmer Underwood (born Fulton County, Illinois1859 - died St. Petersburg, Florida1947) and Bert Elias Underwood (born in Oxford, Illinois1862 - died Tuscon, Arizona1943).They moved to Baltimoreand then to New York Cityin 1891.
At one time, Underwood & Underwood was the largest publisher of stereoviews in the world, producing 10 million views a year. The Underwood brothers developed a selling system of thorough canvassing using college students. They distributed stereographs for Charles Bierstadt,J.F. Jarvis and the Littleton View Company. By 1887, they outgrew their original office in Ottawa and moved to New York City. Offices were also opened in Canada and Europe. In 1891, Bert learned how to operate a camera and thus the firm of Underwood & Underwood Publishing entered a new merchandising sphere. By 1897, the company had a number of full-time staff and freelance photographers. In the same year, the Underwoods purchased the businesses of Jarvis; Bierstadt; and, William H. Rau.Underwood & Underwood was publishing 25,000 stereographs a day by 1901.The firm still canvassed and sold its own stereographs. Around 1900, Underwood & Underwood introduced boxed sets, with specific themes, such as education and religion, and travel sets depicting popular tourist areas of the world.
Astereoscopeis a device for viewing a stereoscopic pairof separate images, depicting left-eye and right-eye views of the same scene, as a single three-dimensional image.
A typical stereoscope provides each eye with a lens that makes the image seen through it appear larger and more distant and usually also shifts its apparent horizontal position, so that for a person with normal binocular depth perception the edges of the two images seemingly fuse into one \"stereo window\". In current practice, the images are prepared so that the scene appears to be beyond this virtual window, through which objects are sometimes allowed to protrude, but this was not always the custom. A divider or other view-limiting feature is usually provided to prevent each eye from being distracted by also seeing the image intended for the other eye.
A TOUGH FIND IN THIS CONDITION!Please view all extra large, very clear and detailed photos to judge for yourself.
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