Original box for Spare glass for Carbon arc illuminant..
Category
Photographic technology
Date
1850 - 1910
Materials
Card, Plastic
Measurements
110 mm (Height); 65 mm (Diameter)
Collection
Fox Talbot Museum, Wiltshire
NT 1525229.4.2
Summary
Original box for Spare glass for Carbon arc illuminant. This is a simple card tube with a small roll outward at the top and inward at the bottom. The card base rests on the inward card roll. The lid is a plastic disc shaped to fit onto the outward roll at the top of the tube.
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