Two Charles Bush Kaleidoscopes

Description:

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.
Estimate $300-500

very clean and clear glass and ampules, brass ship's wheel lacking one brass arm


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