California Chinese Fireworks Productions Inc. - 2004 dated Fireworks Company Stock Certificate - Very Rare Topic
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Stock printed by Banknote Corp. of America. Exceptional and very unusual color! Quite a rare topic! Chinese fireworks or paper fireworks, also known by the French terms feux pyriques or feux arabesques, is a type of optical toy box that displays pictures with twinkling light effects. Chinese fireworks creates an effect, the effect was used to create the impression of flames, fireworks, fountains, sun rays, city lights, et cetera. Many other pictures displayed abstract patterns. Also coats of arms and short texts are among the known extant plates.
Chinese fireworks were probably developed from the peep shows that were popular in the 17th and 18th century. Many peep show pictures used coloured transparent paper behind cutouts and perforations and were lit from behind with candles. Most Chinese fireworks seem to have been made in The Netherlands between 1775 and 1800. It was also popular in England in the 19th century. Hardly any large Chinese fireworks boxes were made after 1850. Simpler versions were produced for children, or they could craft their own by following instructions in children's periodicals. Editions of the Encyclopædia Britannica from 1810 to 1823 contained an extensive explanation of how one could produce several sorts of "optical imitations of fire-works". The principle of the Chinese fireworks was adapted for magic lantern slides. The chromatrope can be regarded as a further development of this technique. Read more at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_fireworks
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