City Sale & Exchange half plate size studio camera.
Category
Photographic technology
Date
Unknown
Materials
Mahogany, Brass, Glass
Measurements
270 x 340 x 150 mm
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Fox Talbot Museum, Wiltshire
NT 1524915.1
Summary
City Sale & Exchange half plate size studio camera. The body is mahogany and the double bellows is red leather. The plate size is half plate and there is a ground glass focusing screen. Focusing is by means of a rack and pinion but this is currently jammed on one side. The lens plate rises and carries an enamel disc reading 'Sale & Exchange West End Branch, 26 & 28 Kings Road London SW'. All fittings are brass and the lens is in a brass barrel. It is marked ' J R Dalmeyer London 10222'. Aperture is by Waterhouse stops of which there are 3.
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