A Lightning Magazine box camera case
Category
Photographic technology
Date
1903
Materials
Canvas, Leather, Metal
Measurements
200 x 240 x 120 mm
Order this imageCollection
Fox Talbot Museum, Wiltshire
NT 1524881.2
Summary
A Lightning magazine box camera case. The case is constructed of brown canvas with a green interior. It has a carrying handle on the top and the flap folds over the front and is secured by two straps and a hasp and staple lock. Inside the flap is a label reading "Benetfink and Co, Cheapside, London, EC". On the sides are buckles to take a shoulder strap which is missing.
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