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La Mecque - View Master

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Edition Gaf, Brussels, around 1970 Set composed of the binoculars, the booklet, with its 3 slide discs. Original box. Viewmaster reels Hajj and Ziarah, pilgrim journey to Mecca in 3D photos View-master with booklet, pair of binoculars, orinal slides and box - Made In Belgium, by GAF company. The View-Master is a device marketed since the end of the 1930s by Sawyer's Photo Services, allowing to view images in stereoscopy (3D), from cardboard discs bearing seven views. The user inserts a cardboard disk with 7 pairs of slides (then called 7 "views") into the binocular device. Each eye sees a separate pair of images, and these form a relief image. The user operates a trigger on the side of the viewer to rotate the disk, and switch from one image to another.