Messter, 35 mm Thaumatograph projector, a variant of model XI, 1902,

Serial number 578

Attribution by Martin Koerber and Dietmar Linke of the Potsdam Film museum

This machine is almost if not totally machined from raw industrial steel and bronze. I cannot discern any castings. There were a series of Thaumatographs made by Messter and I assume only a small number of each model was made and it is possible that each machine may be unique in its own way.

Herbert Tummel, Deutsche Laufbildprojektoren, Berlin, 1986, page 135.

The best book on Messters machines is Oskar Messter – FILMPIONIER DER KAISERZEIT, Frankfurt, 1994.