Box of Barnet Super-Fixer Press Plates, by Barnet Ensign Ltd.
Barnet Ensign Ltd.
Category
Photographic technology
Date
1945 - 1948
Materials
Cardboard, Paper, Glass
Measurements
23 x 92 x 120 mm
Place of origin
Walthamstow
Order this imageCollection
Fox Talbot Museum, Wiltshire
NT 1525345
Summary
Box of Barnet Super-Fixer Press Plates, by Barnet Ensign Ltd, Walthamstow, London E17. Brown cardboard box containing 6 remaining plates, size 3¼" x 4¼", wrapped in black paper. The lid of the box has a paper label printed in black with information about formulae for Pyro Soda, Pyro Metol, MQ Developer, Acid Fixing Bath and Acid Hardening Fixing Bath. Stamped in black ink on the side of the box: "D 1920 P F".
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.
Makers and roles
Barnet Ensign Ltd., manufacturer