'Ruby' Folding Bellows Field or Stand Camera and Darkslides

Made:
1880-1890 in Altrincham
maker:
Thornton-Pickard Manufacturing Company
and
J Lancaster and Son

Thornton Pickard 'Ruby' folding bellows field or stand camera. With triple extension, tapered leather bellows, swing and reversing back, rising front and rack and pinion focusing. Lens panel clips to the baseboard. Provision for a tripod. Fitted with an F.10 Aplanat lens by Lancaster. Made of mahogany with brass fittings. Thornton Pickard Manufacturing Co. c.1885.

Details

Category:
Photographic Technology
Collection:
Arthur Frank Collection
Object Number:
1979-559/582
Materials:
leather, glass, mahogany (wood) and brass (copper, zinc alloy)
type:
field camera
credit:
The Arthur Frank Collection

Parts

Three Book Form Double Darkslide, c 1885

Three Book Form Double Darkslide, c 1885

Three book form double darkslide. Thornton Pickard Manufacturing Co. c 1885.

Measurements:
overall: 225 mm x 150 mm x 25 mm,
Object Number:
1979-559/582/1
type:
darkslide
Thornton Pickard 'Ruby' Folding Bellows Field or Stand Camera, c 1890

Thornton Pickard 'Ruby' Folding Bellows Field or Stand Camera, c 1890

Thornton Pickard 'Ruby' folding bellows field or stand camera. With triple extension, tapered leather bellows, swing and reversing back, rising front and rack and pinion focusing. Lens panel clips to the baseboard. Provision for a tripod. Fitted with an F.10 Aplanat lens by Lancaster. Made of mahogany with brass fittings. Thornton Pickard Manufacturing Co. c.1885.

Measurements:
overall: 235 mm x 230 mm x 120 mm,
Materials:
brass (copper, zinc alloy) , glass , leather and mahogany (wood)
Object Number:
1979-559/582/2
type:
field camera