Original box for Thornton Pickard Time and Instantaneous shutter.
Thornton Pickard
Category
Photographic technology
Date
1892 - 1900
Materials
Cardboard, Paper
Place of origin
Altrincham
Order this imageCollection
Fox Talbot Museum, Wiltshire
NT 1524705.2
Summary
Original box for Thornton Pickard roller blind shutter with pneumatic ball 1892-1900 Red square original cardboard box with illustrated square label in yellow paper depicting the shutter and "THORNTON PICKARD PATENT TIME and INST. WITH SPEED INDICATOR" and "SIZE..." printed in black ink. Handwritten in pencil next to "SIZE" is "2 1/2" followed by illegible script and "Time Valve". Instructions in black printed ink on orange paper have been adhered to inside of box. Handwritten in pencil on bottom of box is "No. 21".
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