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can anyone help identify an antique object?

I am trying to identify the correct name of an object that has been in my family for over 100 years. It is a very small ivory/bone object which looks like a bobbin, however, when you look through one end you can see a tiny photograph of my great-grandmother. I estimate that it's late Victorian.

KatieG Wed 18/06/08 11:14

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CheekyChick
Wed 18/06/08
12:10

It sounds like it may be a Stanhope viewer.

See the following link for more information about these.

http://www.stanhopes.info/what_are_stanhopes.h tml

KatieG
Wed 18/06/08
12:38

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Hi Cheeky Chick - is exactly what this is! Brilliant! Thank you so much. x

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