Item - Vintage Sawyers Viewmaster Three Reel Set B370-E '20,000 Leagues Under The Sea' in Original Packet with Booklet and Reel Sleeve (please see all photos).
Maker - GAF of New York, USA.
Stamps - Printed Details (please see pics)
Type - Triple Reel Set in Original Packet c/w with Booklet and Reel Sleeve
Circa - 1954
Country of Origin - USA
Dimensions - 4.5" by 4.5"
Weight - 24 gram
Condition - Packet is in Very Good Used Condition with just a little edge wear and a couple of light marks to the front.
Booklet, Inner Sleeve and Reels are also in Very Good Used Condition with very slight bubbling to the reels (please refer to pics).
Other Interesting Points - Although today the View-Master is mainly considered as a toy, it's original appeal and use was geared towards families and adults and as alternative to the picture postcards and earlier simple stereoscopic viewers. The first viewers and reels were produced after a chance meeting between Harold Graves (president of Sawyers - a Postcard Company) and photographer William Gruber who was experimenting with stereo photography on 35mm film. Shortly after, Gruber was to invent the first View-Master system of round discs carrying stereo pairs and a simple-to-operate hand-held viewer, Graves loved the idea and together they formed a partnership and started production. The Model A Viewer as it was to be known was unveiled at the 1939 New York World's Fair and was an instant success. During WW2 the US government purchased 100,000 View-Masters and six million disk to aid soldiers identify enemy planes, artillery and ships from far away. The humble View-Master has continued to entertain many generations and will do for years to come...
(Please see all Photos).
POSTAGE & PACKAGING
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