A Thornton-Pickard Special Ruby Reflex camera
Thornton Pickard
Category
Photographic technology
Date
1923 - 1938
Materials
Wood, Metal, Leather, Glass, Plastic
Measurements
225 x 185 x 210 mm
Place of origin
Manchester
Order this imageCollection
Fox Talbot Museum, Wiltshire
NT 1524851.2
Summary
A Thornton-Pickard Special Ruby Reflex Box construction camera. Cook Antistigmatic F4.4 lens. The camera is wooden, black leather covered with metal fittings. Leather bellows and viewing hood, and leather carrying handle on the LH side together with a bellows focussing knob. The front has a metal plate inscribed Special T P Ruby, a leather hinged cover for the lens and a rise and fall knob. On the RH side are a speed shutter knob and a lever to raise the mirror. At the back is a leather viewing hood. The top hinges open with a removable ground glass screen inside a plate inscribed "Camera in register -- ground side down". The lens is engraved "no. 85237 T&P Cooke Anastigmatic lens TT&H up 67/8inches f4.5"
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