A cardboard box and lid containing a shutter for a Perken Son and Rayment Optimus camera, bulb release and pieces of the bulb release hose.
Category
Technological items
Date
Unknown
Materials
Card, Metal
Measurements
Box and Lid 38 x 154 x 112 mm
Order this imageCollection
Fox Talbot Museum, Wiltshire
NT 1524734.5
Summary
A cardboard box and lid containing a shutter for a Perken Son and Rayment Optimus camera, rubber bulb release and pieces of the bulb release hose (now broken and hardened).
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.