A brown leather case for a Zeiss Ikon Cocarette folding rollfilm camera.
Category
Photographic technology
Date
1926 - 1930
Materials
Leather, Metal, Thread
Measurements
180 x 95 x 40 mm
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Fox Talbot Museum, Wiltshire
NT 1524479.2
Summary
A brown leather case for a Zeiss Ikon Cocarette folding rollfilm camera. Case has metal clasp with keyhole (no key) and brown stitching, brown leather carrying strap with adjustable metal buckle. Markings: Outside flap embossed 'B.S.A.' Front lower oblong white paper label handwritten in black ink '1930 c/205' Inside flap has green oblong fabric label with embossed gold print 'Wallace Heaton Limited "The Amateur Cine People" 119 New Bond Street, London W'. At top of label 'By appointment to HRH Prince of Wales'
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