Original box (empty) for Gevaert Lantern Plates.
Gevaert Photo-Producten N. V.
Category
Ephemera
Date
1894 - 1935
Materials
Cardboard, Paper
Measurements
27 x 110 x 93 mm
Place of origin
Antwerp
Order this imageCollection
Fox Talbot Museum, Wiltshire
NT 1525351
Summary
Original box (empty) for Gevaert Lantern Plates. Rectangular brown cardboard lidded box, with the interior base coloured purple and with paper label on lid, printed in black, grey and red: "Gevaert Lantern Plates. Black contrast" and stamped in black ink with "YH. 34573C. Made in Belgium." Stamped in black ink on the base: "0551 44N43".
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
Gevaert Photo-Producten N. V., manufacturer