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Stereoscope ‘à sphères parallèles’

Stereoscope ‘à sphères parallèles’

Jules Fleury, known as Fleury Her­magis, born in 1835, was an opti­cian and the son of Hyacinthe Her­magis. In 1864, he took over his father’s busi­ness, a com­pa­ny spe­cial­iz­ing in pre­ci­sion optics and gen­er­al pho­to­graph­ic sup­plies, locat­ed at 18 Rue Ram­buteau in Paris and found­ed 

Tray-Stereoscope ‘Stéréodrome Métallique’ / ‘La Tulipe’

Tray-Stereoscope ‘Stéréodrome Métallique’ / ‘La Tulipe’

The Stéréo­drome Métallique belongs to the last gen­er­a­tion of tray-based stere­o­scopes intro­duced at the end of the 1920s. The stere­o­scope is con­struct­ed entire­ly from met­al and has a more mod­ern appear­ance com­pared with the more com­mon tray-based view­ers. To achieve the slim design of the