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Folk art church model - All wood painted gray. Presumably represents a stone
church with an attached rectory building. It is in 2 sections. The church has
arched plastic cel "stained glass" windows, and a hinged roof. The rectory does
not open but you can see in the detail that it has a staircase. As is typical
of folk-art, its apparently been made with scrap wood including wooden crates.
- As indicated in the photo showing the crate label (the wood says Wellesley
and the paper label says Boston).
Approximate age is 1930s to 1950s. We've owned it the past 15 years. It's large enough that at one time we let our rabbits and our cat run through it.
Recent repairs include internal reinforcements to the church, and some plastic cel "stained glass" window repairs, as well as replacement of some of the rectory's card-stock roof shingles.
Notes:
DIMENSIONS:
Church section
Cellophane has been in use since the 1920's.
I did a brief search of churches on the web, trying to see if I could locate this church. No luck, though the following site Ralph Adams Cram illustrates the similar use of flying buttress on the external walls. (And that's when I realized it would have been a stone church.)
Preferred payment is money order, cashiers check, or PayPal. We will wait for personal checks to clear before shipping - an additional 7 days from receipt.
Please e-mail
ric h @ tagyerit.com for more information.
If you'd like to estimate shipping costs into your budget, go to USPS calculator and plug in our zip code (01002) along with yours, and the estimated shipping weight 65lbs. Add all those nice things like insurance, delivery confirmation ...
We like to think that this homemade slide projector is the "Missing Link" - bridging the gap from the early tin candle powered magic lantern projectors to the slide projector we know today. The early magic lanterns projected delicate images that were often hand painted on glass.
This is unique and very homemade.Very ingenious! We picture someone very resourceful heading for their workshop - a piece of an old wooden prune box, a part from an old brass flashlight holding the front lenses (it took us a few minutes to figure that out!), and so on. How many hours of tinkering ... then voila! - a light show for the family. This is a really nice example of shop "folk art."
Details above:
Left - the brass flashlight tube, with the holes where the switch had been
Right - There is still a paper label on the upper left corner of the large lens which says "France". This is also a pretty good shot, showing the construction of the slide holder. The slide opening measures roughly 1.5"x1.5"
The 2 pictures below show a detail of the inside where the embossing from
the tin has the letters "Keys ... Copper". I would guess that the
first word was Keystone, although I have no idea what it might have been scrounged
from.
Needs to be rewired!
It measures 6" wide, 14.5" long, and 7.5" high.
The sellers
have been on the web since 1996 sharing their music as the band TagYerit
(tag you're it).
