Special Ruby folding field camera
Thornton Pickard
Category
Photographic technology
Date
1900 - 1910
Materials
Wood, Brass, Glass, Leather, Fabric
Measurements
Camera open (188x162x290mm)
Place of origin
England
Order this imageCollection
Fox Talbot Museum, Wiltshire
NT 1524691
Summary
Special Ruby folding field camera, quarter plate size. Taylor Taylor and Hudson f/8 5.38 inch focal length lens, roller blind shutter. The camera is wood with brass fittings, glass plate and black leather bellows. The brass lens is inscripted with "Taylor Taylor and Hobson Leicester and London Number 13329 4X3 RREO Focus 5.38 inches" followed by the aperture scale from F22-F8. The lens is kept wrapped separately within bellows. The wooden roller blind shutter has five speeds. Spring back for easy insertion of dark slides in front of the focusing screen. Circular recess on side which once would have housed an additional manufacturers mark. Manufacturer mark on shutter is printed on white disc with "TIME & INST. PATENT THORNON PICKARD" and engraved on brass plate on side "Thornton Pickard". Rotating wooden ring base. Estimated date 1900-1910
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
Thornton Pickard , manufacturer