A1 Lightning magazine box camera.
Category
Photographic technology
Date
1895 - 1905
Materials
Wood, Leather, Metal, Glass
Measurements
170 x 10 x 200 mm
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Fox Talbot Museum, Wiltshire
NT 1524891
Summary
A1 Lightning magazine box camera. Brown leather covered body. With 3 lenses. A small metal plate swings over the lens. There is a leather carry handle on top A plastic plaque on front: "Hurman Ltd, Newcastle-on- Tyne". Test No. 7597. The camera may have been manufactured by another company and rebadged by Hurman Ltd (see link in General Note below).
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