Leather pouch for a set of 6 Waterhouse stops.
Category
Photographic technology
Date
1858 - 1900
Materials
Metal
Measurements
90 x 66 x 7 mm
Collection
Fox Talbot Museum, Wiltshire
NT 1525165.2
Summary
Leather pouch for a set of 6 Waterhouse stops or diaphragms. This is a well constructed pouch made of card and covered with leather. The card constuction makes the receptacle for the stops and during the covering of the card, a flap has been created which provides the lid and closure for the pouch and the slot into which the shaped extension of the lid slides to close the pouch. (No BFI no.)
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