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Spirit Board & Planchette.
A birch talking board printed in an antique typeface, with a heart-shaped planchette on felt glides: the Victorian parlor object, faithfully reproduced for candlelit evenings and patient questions.
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About this product
Lower the lamps, clear the table and rest your fingertips lightly on the planchette. A spirit board asks for patience, company and a little candlelight, and it has been asking for them in parlors for well over a century.
This one is printed on a warm birch panel roughly 30 by 40 centimeters, in an antique-style typeface: the full alphabet in two sweeping arcs, the numerals beneath, and the three words that have accompanied every version of the object since its invention, Yes, No and Goodbye. A heart-shaped planchette with felt glides on its underside is included to move across the surface.
The talking board was patented in the United States in 1890 as a parlor novelty and rode the spiritualist movement into the séance craze of the early twentieth century. It has been blamed and beloved by turns ever since. This reproduction makes no claim either way: it is simply the object itself, faithfully printed and boxed.
Details
- Printed birch panel, roughly 30 by 40 centimeters
- Alphabet in two arcs, numerals, and Yes, No and Goodbye
- Heart-shaped planchette with felt glides
- Boxed
How to use
Set the board on a flat surface. Rest at least two pairs of hands lightly on the planchette and let it move on its own terms rather than pushing it along. It is sold as a curiosity, and no medical or scientific claims are made for it.
A handsome piece of Victoriana, whichever way you choose to read it.
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