A one inch lens for a lantern projection microscope.
Category
Photographic technology
Date
Unknown
Materials
Brass, Glass
Measurements
53 mm (Depth); 31 mm (Diameter)
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Fox Talbot Museum, Wiltshire
NT 1525090.2
Summary
A one inch lens for a lantern projection microscope. The lens is mounted in brass, and attached by a screw thread to the lid of a brass container. Markings; "1 in", engraved on the lens mount and on the lid and base of the container.
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