1 metal cylinder.
Category
Photographic technology
Date
Unknown
Materials
Metal
Measurements
80 mm (Height); 44 mm (Diameter)
Collection
Fox Talbot Museum, Wiltshire
NT 1525212.4
Summary
A metal cylinder of unknown purpose. This is a pressed metal tube. The circular base has been slightly domed for strength and the edge has been rolled over the base of the cylinders sides. The cylinder is incomplete leaving a nine millimetre gap up the full length. The edges of the metal sheet making the cylinders side have been folded back at the top and then folded down the length of the gap before being rolled onto the base.
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