Nauticalia

Sir David Brewster is generally credited with the invention of the kaleidoscope in 1816. Due to an error in his patent he never made any money from it, depsite the popularity of such entertainment in Victorian times. To use the correct terminology, we offer two types: the CELLOSCOPE (what most of us think of in connection with kaleidoscopes), which has a collection of brightly coloured objects in the base to create an ever changing variety of symmetrical patterns: and the (less well known) TALEIDOSCOPE, with a clear lens at the base, which turns everything you view through it into an infinitely changeable kaleidoscope image of the world. Each one comes with its own pouch.