A Pocket Poco folding plate camera
Bausch and Lomb Opt. Co
Category
Photographic technology
Date
1903
Materials
Wood, Leather, Glass, Brass
Measurements
Open 134 x 103 x 173 mm
Place of origin
Rochester
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Fox Talbot Museum, Wiltshire
NT 1524580
Summary
A Pocket Poco folding plate camera. 3 1/4" x 4 1/4" plate. Red bellows, RR lens, single pneumatic shutter Apertures range from 8 to 128 on U.S. system. Single speed shutter plus T & B. Brass lens plate and chrome fittings Rotating brilliant finder. Distance scale for focusing on base plate.Tripod socket on rear and side. Wooden body covered in black leather with red leather bellows. Base plate is polished wood. Leather carrying handle. Around Lens is 'Bausch & Lomb Optical Company Pat. APPD' Manufacturer plate 'Pocket Poco' Label under handle in blue 'The Poco Camera' logo in a shield.
Provenance
Part of The Fenton Collection. A gift from British Film Institute in 2017. From 1986-1999, part of BFI collection for the Museum of the Moving Image. BFI purchased collection in 1986 from James Fenton's Museum of Photography, Port Erin, Isle of Man 1976-1986
Makers and roles
Bausch and Lomb Opt. Co, manufacturer