Cinematograph toy, featuring David Devant.

Cinematograph toy, featuring David Devant. Paris, ca. 1900. Early moving picture-type toy consist of a cloth covered box fitted with a metal and wooden crank. A strip of paper, similar to a flipbook is fitted in to the box; when the handle is cranked, the image moves in the style of a zoetrope. With original fitted box, tension marble, handle, cinematograph box, and three “films,” one featuring an acrobatic performance, one a cartoon magician, and one of David Devant, the great British conjurer, producing a rabbit from a folded opera hat. Case measures 10 x 5 ½ x 2”. One divider of case separated, otherwise very good.