Newman and Guardia "Sibyl" folding plate camera
N and G.
Category
Photographic technology
Date
1906 - 1935
Materials
Metal, Leather, Glass
Measurements
Closed Size 130 x 95 x 38 mm
Place of origin
London
Order this imageCollection
Fox Talbot Museum, Wiltshire
NT 1524814.1
Summary
Newman and Guardia "Sibyl" folding plate camera. 3 ½" x 2 ½" plate size. Metal casing with black leather covering and black leather bellows. It is a strut camera with a scissor action. Lens - Carl Zeiss Tessar F/6.3 Ground glass focusing screen with black leather hood. Viewfinder rotating on top of standard. Markings - "N&G", "17 & 18 Rathbone Place, Oxford Street, W." "Sybil"
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
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