A black leather case for a Kodak Star Premo folding plate camera.
Category
Photographic technology
Date
1903 - 1908
Materials
Leather, Textile, Metal
Measurements
150 x 260 x 75 mm
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Fox Talbot Museum, Wiltshire
NT 1524791.4
Summary
A black leather case for a Kodak Star Premo folding plate camera. Lined in dark red velvet. Two internal compartments. Metal clasp. Evidence (broken off leather) that there was originally a strap and handle (missing). Retailer's details on black leather label inside flap of lid, printed in gold: "The Westminster Photographic Exchange Ltd, 111 Oxford St, London, W."
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.