Brass thumb screw
Category
Photographic technology
Date
Unknown
Materials
Brass
Measurements
42 x 28 x 12 mm
Collection
Fox Talbot Museum, Wiltshire
NT 1525208.5
Summary
Brass thumb screw. Threaded brass bolt which expands and flattens to create thumb and finger grips to allow tightening by hand.
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