Lid of a two part box for a Watkins Bee Exposure meter
Watkins
Category
Photographic technology
Date
1917
Materials
Card, Metal
Measurements
98 x 70 x 20 mm
Place of origin
Hereford
Order this imageCollection
Fox Talbot Museum, Wiltshire
NT 1525045.2.2
Summary
Lid of a two part box for a Watkins Bee Exposure meter. This lid is constructed from card and with metal reinforced corners. It is printed in blue "3/6 Full instruction Booklet, short instruction card and speed card enclosed" down the left side Under this is a picture of the meter. Cental and right shows a picture of the meter being set under is printed "setting the scales. Watkins Bee Meter. For the photographic exposure of all kinds of plates and films, Outdoors and indoors. This is within a blue border.
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
Watkins , manufacturer