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Auction History Result 1j0303 MUTOSCOPE Mutoscope card 1930s art of sexy topless blonde pin-up on raft, Short on Sails! Date Sold 1/18/2022 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Mutoscope Card (measures 3 1/4" x 5 1/4" [8 x 13 cm]) (Learn More) Mutoscope cards were still images, typically featuring sexy pin-up artwork, printed on cards and sold through vending machines. They were published during the 1940s by the International Mutoscope Reel Company and other firms. Despite the name, they had no connection to the 1890s Mutoscope motion-picture device. The cards often featured art from Earl Moran, Zoe Mozert, Gil Elvgren, Earl Christie and other pin-up artists. Important Added Info: Note that this is a Mutoscope card. You may not be familiar with the word, but you have almost surely seen a Mutoscope machine, if not in person, then in a movie set in the distant past. The machines stood on metal legs and had a circular core. Many hundreds of still pictures were attached to the core (like a later day Rolodex). The pictures were encased within the machine, and there was a crank on the side, and a viewing area in the front, and a person would put money in the machine, and then it would light up, and you would turn the crank, and the pictures (which were sequential of a moving picture sequence) would move by at a speed that gave the illusion of watching a moving picture! The machines were first invented in 1895, and for the next 20 years or so, they were very popular. But as modern day movies became more prevalent and better quality, Mutoscopes fell by the wayside. However, clever promoters realized their potential for showing naked women to people who could not otherwise see them, and they started buying used machines and using them that way. They hung on all the way until the 1950s or so, eventually mostly only found in Scandinavian countries, where they could be used to show pornography. Very few of them survive today. Each machine had a roughly 11" x 20" card mounted in a frame above it, which showed you the name and an image from the movie you were going to be watching (sometimes they were highly edited versions of feature films). Often, these Mutoscope cards were separated from the machines when they broke and sold to collectors. Because the machines were in use for half a century, it is nearly impossible to date the cards! Ones that were made at a later time were purposely made to look "old fashioned", so as to seem in keeping with the machine itself. Our best guess on this particular card is that it might be from the 1920s or 1930s, but that is purely a guess. If anyone knows more about this, please e-mail us and we will post it here. Condition: very good to fine. Learn More about condition grades 
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