Photographic plate holder
Category
Photographic technology
Date
Unknown
Materials
Measurements
235 mm (Width) x 25 mm (Depth); 265 mm (Length)
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Lacock, Wiltshire
NT 1545264
Summary
A wooden single plate holder for whole plate images. For images making images 142mm by 182mm. The fabric pulls on access door and dark slide are torn away. The dark slide side of the plate holder is reinforced with a metal bar 254mm x 7mm in size. And the dark slide is reinforced with a strip of wood 237 x 12 mm. The dark slide is warped and will not open. Inside the holder is a piece of glass measuring 155mm x 196mm. An early example, likely to have come from a camera used by William Henry Fox Talbot.
Provenance
Purchased with the family collection of Abbey contents in situ from Mrs Petronella Burnett-Brown December 2009.