Bing Brothers epidiascope lantern

Manufacturer: Bing-Werke AG

Nationality: German

Place Manufactured: Nuremberg

Function: Toy epidiascope

Light Source: incandescent light bulb and reflecting mirror

Introduction/Production date: ca. 1925

Note: This is a combined magic lantern and episcope. Inside is

a maneuverable mirror, adjustable from the top by a knob. The

mirror turned one way reflects the light out the smaller lens

for lantern slides or turned to reflect light via the larger lens

for opaque picture.

The Bing Brothers were a large toy manufacturer in Nuremberg in 1908 they claim they were the largest toy factory in the

world and employed 3,000 workers. By 1934 the company was

in trouble and Johannes Falk purchased some of the Bing’s mechanical toy inventory.