Pneumatic shutter release bulb.
Thornton Pickard
Category
Photographic technology
Date
1887 - 1898
Materials
Rubber, Cord
Measurements
48 mm (Height); 38 mm (Diameter)
Place of origin
Altrincham
Order this imageCollection
Fox Talbot Museum, Wiltshire
NT 1524734.5.2
Summary
Red pneumatic shutter release bulb, part of the Thornton-Pickard roller blind shutter with Perken Son and Rayment Optimus folding plate camera. The bulb is perished and has become detached from its hose. The hose has perished and fragmented into a number of pieces. Inscribed into the bulb is the mark: 'ANTI-CLIMATIC'. A piece of string is tied around neck of bulb.
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