Sold for:
$338
$338
Two Charles Bush Kaleidoscopes, C. G. Bush & Co., manufacturer, Providence, Rhode Island, c. 1870s, both with pebbled paper-covered cardboard cylinders, one brass ship's wheel-form, the other with ebonized turned handles, with movable fittings, supported on a turned walnut, four-legged base, circular chamber box containing multicolored glass segments and liquid-filled ampules, producing geometric patterns in the viewing lens, one with original label reading C.G. Bush & Co. Providence R.I. , the other engraved on brass ring, ht. 12 in.
Auctioneer:
Skinner
Date:
2015-10-31
