A Perken Son and Rayment Optimus camera in camera case, with photographic equipment and accessories.
Perken, Son and Rayment
Category
Photographic technology
Date
1900
Materials
Place of origin
London
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Fox Talbot Museum, Wiltshire
NT 1524734
Summary
Camera case containing Perken Son and Rayment Optimus camera, 3 shutters (2 of which are in boxes with other photographic equipment), 2 plateholders with dark slides, and 2 containers of photographic processing chemicals.
Provenance
A 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
Perken, Son and Rayment, manufacturer