The Photographic Beacon 1886 photography trade magazine 2 issues stereopticon

(Old Magazines, 19th Century Periodicals, Photography, Trade Magazines, Period Advertising).The Photographic Beacon, ed. by Dr. John Nicol.Published monthly, 1886, Chicago by Shepard & Johnston. Vol. 1- numbers no.6 & 12.2 issues, each c. 15pages plus advertising. Text in English. Nice assortment of dated advertising as well, often illustrated.Nice and scarce 19th century magazines with illustrated paper wrappers. Lot consists of the April and October 1886 issues. Small newspaper format publication.Bindings remains clean, tight, and sound, various mostly small signs of age, time and handling, nothing offensive or major. Overall a nice looking lot.Small age flaws or defects include old creasing, edge chipping, small light old staining, etc. Overall entirely acceptable example of what is likely a scarce survival. The pictures give a very good sense of how the lot survives.Virtually all periodicals of this era are somewhat scarce today as loose complete issues. Like most random su