Six photographic dark slides and holders.
Category
Photographic technology
Date
Unknown
Materials
Metal, Glass
Measurements
100 x 155 x 4 mm
Order this imageCollection
Fox Talbot Museum, Wiltshire
NT 1524726.2
Summary
Six photographic dark slides and holders. Black metal, stamped with name "Contessa-Nettel", "657" and the company logo. The front of each is numbered in white: 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, and 7 (there is no number 5). Only numbers 2 and 6 contain glass slides.
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