A good Kinora viewer with 3 reels, this one on a rarer shaped base. In perfect working and original condition noting a tiny chip on the bottom left hand corner of the front lens, complete with its 2 lens.
Sold with 3 reels:
#258 Woman singing and then fighting with pianist over the score
#25 Indian elephants bathing in river
#1519 Skater

The Kinora system of "home movies" was an invention of the Lumiere Brothers in 1896, based on an idea by Herman Casler.
Reels of "flipbook" type photographic leaves mounted in a simple, miniature Mutoscope viewing machine were very popular until WW1. Reels could be bought or hired, and featured actuality scenes and many other subjects. It was possible to have one's Kinora moving portrait taken in a studio, a home movie camera was marketed in England.