1 Gas Mantle in cardboard tube.
Category
Photographic technology
Date
Unknown
Materials
Card, Paper, Fabric
Measurements
94 mm (Height); 36 mm (Diameter)
Order this imageCollection
Fox Talbot Museum, Wiltshire
NT 1525212.3
Summary
1 cardboard Gas Mantle tube containing a mantle. The body of the cylinder is covered with a white paper label with no markings. There is one manilla coloured closure cap The cylinder contains a small piece of cotton wool packing The mantle itself is in good condition so has not been handled or measured.
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