Folding travelling candle lamp safelight.
Category
Photographic technology
Date
1885 - 1890
Materials
Metal
Measurements
180 x 130 x 110 mm
Order this imageCollection
Fox Talbot Museum, Wiltshire
NT 1525140.1
Summary
Folding travelling candle lamp safelight with box of special hard candles for use in the lamp. In original box. The unit comprises a hinged pair of metal plates and two trianglur frames which form top and bottom of the unit. The top triangular section has a vent in it. The third side of the structure is the red filter (1525140.2). One side of the folding pair of plates has two handles. There are no markings to indicate the manufacturer, but it is believed to be Redding's, judging by a very similar design of known manufacture.
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