Original corrugated box for The Hunter Coverlite Globe
Category
Photographic technology
Date
Unknown
Materials
Glass, Metal, Cardboard
Measurements
120 x 160 x 140 mm
Order this imageCollection
Fox Talbot Museum, Wiltshire
NT 1525146.2
Summary
Original corrugated card box for a Hunter Coverlite Globe. The box is created from two pieces of corrugated card. One piece creates the four sides and this is stapled to a second piece making the bottom and top. On the side of the box is a paper label "The Hunter Series The Hunter "Coverlite" Globe Absolutely safe Pure Inactin glass R.F.H. Ltd No 400 Ruby" The label shows a horse and rider jumping a gate and a picture of the coverlite. A brown paper label is stapled to the top of the box "This box made by M. Cook & Son Corrugated Container Manufacturer Laycock Street Islington N.I. Phone NORTH 1948 & 1949 Private branch exchange"
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