The Hunter Coverlite Globe.
Category
Photographic technology
Date
Unknown
Materials
Glass, Metal, Card
Measurements
150 mm (Height); 103 mm (Diameter)
Order this imageCollection
Fox Talbot Museum, Wiltshire
NT 1525146.1
Summary
The Hunter Coverlite Globe. A safelight glass dome with a metal screw on top which has a hole and card washer through which a bulb holder can be passed and the whole hung in the darkroom. The dome is printed with "Massivrubin Inactin Unter standiger Kontrolle hinsich uich spektroskonischer Lichtsicherheit gearbeitet" Early Photography has this item listed and describe it as by Kindermann and Co of Berlin
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