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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 3291487, member: 19463&quot;]I once collected photo-antiques and may still have a later, electric, projector in the attic but I last saw it 17 years ago when we moved and really don&#039;t remember what we did with it.&nbsp; These glass slides were the forerunners of 35mm color slides and of popular use for lectures.&nbsp; I would value the slides according to the quality of photography and whether they were photos of coins or of plaster casts which was common it the day.&nbsp; They could also be copied from book plates.&nbsp; Such items would be used for a lecture at an art museum or college that probably drew a larger crowd than you would imagine.&nbsp; They come from a day when intelligence was valued over athletic skills or political rhetoric.</p><p><br /></p><p>I would love to own high quality actual photos of actual coins (not copied from book plates) from that period but the number of such items and the space they take makes the value about what you get recycling the silver in them. </p><p><br /></p><p>This seems a place to show my photo from the mid-late 1850&#039;s showing a still life arrangement including a bracelet made of antoniniani (my guess is Postumus).&nbsp; The stereo card is French. It is the oldest photo of ancient coins I have seen and I would appreciate hearing of others of that period.</p><p><img src="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/dougsmith/coinster.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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