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an old Potter badged glass plate projector<\/p><\/div>\n

Toronto<\/strong>. Issue 26-5 introduces us to a Toronto company selling various scientific instruments such as the Potter Lantern shown at left and described by Bill Belier and Bob Wilson in Bill’s “A Treasure <\/span>From Two<\/em><\/strong> Collections…” column.<\/p>\n

Bill begins, “About twenty years ago [1980] I received a call from an old gentleman living in a rural area just east of\u00a0Toronto that lead to my acquisition of the Potter\u00a0<\/i>Lantern<\/i>, pictured here. Somehow he knew my telephone number, supplied by a ‘friend of a friend’\u2026<\/p>\n

“He could not quite remember the sequence, but he\u00a0had been told that I would buy old\u00a0cameras. Well, he\u00a0had just such\u00a0a camera\u2026 ‘with a big\u00a0brass lens’\u00a0that he had\u00a0discovered\u00a0in his attic.<\/p>\n

“It apparently\u00a0was left behind by the\u00a0former owner of a house he\u00a0purchased soon after WW II. Was I\u00a0interested?\u2026 Yes I was, and without further questioning, drove over to see the camera the following\u00a0day.<\/p>\n

“Name plate on [the]\u00a0lens of Bob\u00a0Wilson\u2019s Victor\u00a0projector reads:\u00a0Sold By\u00a0<\/i>Charles Potter,\u00a0<\/i>85 Yonge St.\u00a0<\/i>Toronto.\u00a0<\/i>(1901-1914)<\/p>\n

“What a disappointment awaited me\u2026 the ‘big brass lens’ was attached to an ugly old lantern slide\u00a0projector that did nothing to increase my heart\u00a0beat\u2026 I had expected at least a wet-plate [camera]!<\/p>\n

“My host was visibly disappointed by my lack of enthusiasm after I had explained that a projector was not actually a camera. But because of the strange name plate, with the Toronto reference, I decided to purchase the projector anyway. Not being in any particular hurry to find out more, I consigned it to my storage loft where it remained until I casually mentioned it to Bob Wilson recently [March 2001].<\/p>\n

“His 1989 article about a projector in his collection, the Victor\u00a0<\/i>Portable Stereopticon <\/i>also had a connection to\u00a0Charles Potter (see P.C. Vol. 15 No 3 1989<\/i>).”<\/p>\n

Members read all of Bill’s column in the pdf file for issue 26-5 on the free member’s only DVD\/memory stick. To join, just see ‘membership’ above and at right. Questions? Drop an email to member@phsc.ca<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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