Magic Lantern - Biscuit tin magic lanterns, deel 2.

Biscuit tin magic lanterns and other home handicrafts.
Some other nice handicrafts.

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Lithobox. Somewhere in a recycling shop I found a very battered tea warmer containing a single lithophane that was also broken, cracked and very badly and carelessly glued. I could repair that glue. Of course the fractions remained visible, but it was not that disturbing anymore. But what do you have to do with such a loose lithophane? I looked for a suitable housing for it and after a long search and various bad bargains I found a wooden tea box that seemed to be made for it. Of course again in the unsurpassed cycle. I broke the plastic bin out and placed the lithophane in it. It has become, after some tinkering, a very nice and beautiful atmospheric lighting.


A beautiful table lamp with lithophane lampshade.
	Some years ago I bought a rickety tea warmer, containing a beautiful funnel-shaped lithophane, for 7 euros. The lithophan did not fit into the tea light, which was so decrepit that I could deposit it immediately into the dustbin. After that I searched zealously for a better tea light in which the lithophan would belong. It was in vain, and that was not surprising because I was later told by lithophan-expert Louis J. Hart that this lithophane was probably a lampshade. I had found it already so strange that there were no recesses at the bottom for the stick of the oil lamp, but had been so fixed on that tea light that I had apparently closed for other possibilities. So I made plans to go through all the flea markets again, now for a matching lamp. Next morning I woke up and my first thought was that I had once brought a pair of brass candlesticks at a giveaway store. Could I do something with those? Of course I had to know that right away and yes, the lithophane fitted perfectly on top of it.
Immediately after breakfast I electrified the candlestick with parts from the rubbish bin and some hours later a beautiful 'antique' lamp was flaunting in the living room. Costs ... 7 euros!


There are four images on the lithophane. They show a hunter with his sweetheart. We see the "Jäger und Liebchen auf Brücke", "Jäger und Liebchen am Zaun", and twice in other places. The lithophane is made in Germany ; on the inside a stamp is stamped with the text '25 GERMANY 42 '. I do not know yet what the numbers mean.
	Nice table lamp

I found the frame of a tea warmer in the unsurpassed thrift store. The square lantern slides fit exactly in the four openings. And a glass coaster I still had fit perfectly on the top. With an LED light in it, it became a nice table lamp.