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The Excelsior magazine plate camera. No makers name. Patent number 765. Wooden box camera for 3 1/4 x 4 1/4 plates. RR lens with fixed focus and aperture. Adjustable sector shutter 1-2-3 by screw. T/I release buttons. Reflecting finders - 2- with metal hoods. Plates changed by turning a crank on the top of the camera. Spring-loaded claws transport the plates and there is an automatic counter on the back , numbered from 1-12. It was possibly made in Germany.

The Excelsior Magazine Plate Camera

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Folding camera for 3 1/4 x 5 1/2 inch plates or filmpack. Bausch and Lomb Planatograph lens US 4-128. Ball bearing shutter 25/50/100/B/T. Sliding focusing and rising front. Brilliant reflecting rotating finder. Ground glass screen in spring back. No. 7004. Eastman Kodak Company.

Premo No 8 camera

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1913-1922
Premoette junior camera fitted with a meniscus lens, 8 -128. Bausch and Lomb shutter T/B/I. sliding focusing, rotating reflecting finder on baseboard. Folding camera for film pack, 2 1/2 x 4 1/4 inches. Eastman Kodak. 1909-1912.

Premoette No 1a camera

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1909-1912
Folding hand camera for 3 1/4 x 4 1/4 plates. R. & J. Beck, series IV Isostigmar lens No. 19059 F:6 inch f/6.3 - 32. Koilos shutter with 3 blades, cocking lever 1/2/4/10/50/100/200/B/T. Cable release socket with cable. Sliding rising front (two movements) swing front (two movements) falling baseboard., hinged top flap on body for rising front movement. Rack and pinion focusing. Double extension bellows with brilliant reflecting finder, Adams & Co. with rotating mask on baseboard, spirit level with removable back.

Sanderson Folding Plate camera

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c. 1910
Dallmeyer Speed camera of British manufacture with British Patent 8721-2 and American Patent 1088492 Rg. No. 604414. Folding camera for 2 1/2 x 3 1/2 inch plates. Fitted with a Dallmeyer Pentac lens F: 4 1/4 inches f/2.9-16 no. 107334. Focal plane shutter 8/16/32/64/125/250/500/1000/B/T. Lever focusing, sliding rising front. Wire frame finder No DS 183.

Dallmeyer Speed Camera

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1925
One-shot tri-colour camera made by W Watson & Sons Ltd. Aaron Hamburger design. Serial No. 14626. Back and side plates. For 1/1 plates; transparent reflector (missing) splits beam in two paths - straight through onto bi-pack of two plates at back, in special holder with rubber covered pressure plate; reflected beam onto single plate at side; fitted with Ross Rapid Symmetrical lens No 22403 (not original). Rack focusing, with linkage swinging back holder to allow for toeing in at different distances.

One-Shot Tri-Colour Camera

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A-form collapsing camera for 3 1/4 x 4 1/4 inch plates. Fitted with a C.P. Goerz Syntor Doppel anastigmat Series D lens F: 125mm f/6.8-45 No. 206878. Compound shutter 1/2/5/10/25/50/100/250/B/T. Pneumatic release valve. Sliding rising front. Helical screw focusing by lever. Shew and Co.

Xit camera

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Box camera for 9x12cm plates; 9 small lenses in 3x3 rows. Front flap folds down, with holder for photograph, for copying; internally divided into 9 compartments.

Stamp camera (?Holborn)

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Folding camera for 3 1/4 x 4 1/4 inch plates. Taylor Taylor Hobson Cooke anastigmat lens F: 5 inches f/6.3-45. No.53925. Ensign sector shutter 1/2/5/10/25/50/100/B/T. Rack and pinion focusing. Sliding rising and cross front. Brilliant reflecting rotating finder. Ground glass focusing screen. Houghtons Limited.

Folding Klito camera

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1912
Ensign folding bellows camera for plates or sheet film size 3 1/4 x 4 1/4". Drop-front pull-out type with rack adn pinion focusing and double bellows extension. With Rectimat Symmetrical lens F.8.5" f.1 lens mounted in an ever-set shutter speeds 1/25 ro 1/100sec B. & T. With back ground glass. All metal construction with black leather cover. Houghton c.1920

Ensign folding bellows camera

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1915-1925
The 'Sanderson' folding bellows camera for plates or cutfilm size 3 1/4" x 4 1/4". Rack and pinion focusing. More than double extensions. With waist-level viewfinder and ground glass back. has an interchangeable lens panel fitted with a Bausch detective aplanat 5" f.1 lens made by Roya form, Emil Bausch Rathenniw mounted in a Bausch & Lomb Unicum shutter, speeds 1sec - 1/100 B. & T. With 5 wooden double dark slides. c.1906

The 'Sanderson' folding bellows camera

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c.1906
Eclipse plate camera (ground glass missing), manufactured by J F Shew & Co, Newman Street London. Collapsing, wooden A form plate camera for 4 3/4 x 6 1/2 plates. RR lens, rotating aperture disc. f/ 7.7, 11, 16, 22. Rotary shutter T/I. Helical screw/lever focusing inf. -10'. Two spirit levels.Ground glass missing. Number 4102 (M 1259). Overall (deployed): 160 mm x 206 mm x 210 mm. A wooden collapsing A-form hand camera for half-plates, fitted with a rapid rectilinear lens and a rotary shutter. This camera was one of the first plate cameras designed for hand use. When closed it resembles a flat box. The sides fold out and the lens panel is pulled out and fits into notches in the side panels. The camera is based on a design by G Lowdon, patented on 1st April, 1885 (No 4102).

Eclipse plate camera

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15 x 12" plate camera made by W. Watson & Sons Ltd, 313 High Holborn, London. New Patent model, sold by W. Morley, 70 Upper Street, London. With TTH lens No. 16760, 12 x 10 RR Eq. focus. 16"; f8 - 64 iris diaphragm. Rising front (sliding) swing front. Dou

15 x 12 Inch Plate Camera

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The Pullman camera. Bellows camera in leather box, detective style, for 3 1/4 x 4 1/4 plates. Rapid rectilinear lens f/8-64. Benetfink supplied Thornton Pickard Time & Inst shutter 15/30/45/75/90/T behind lens, Reg No 211201. With leather lens cap. Sliding rising front. Rack and pinion focusing using removable key stored inside case. Reflecting viewfinder missing from baseboard. Vertical swing back, ground glass screen. Manufactured by J Levi & Co London. Retailed by Benet..., Cheapside, London.

The Pullman Detective Camera

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c. 1896
Klito folding bellows camera for plates or cutfilm 3 1/4 x 4 1/4 ". Drop-front pull-out type. Fitted with a Plutar Extra Rapid Aplanat Series III F.8 5" lens mounted in an Ensign sector II shutter, speeds 1sec - 1/100 B. & T. Waist level viewfinder. Made of wood and metal with black leather covering. Houghton c.1914

Ensign Klito folding bellows camera, c 1914

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1904-1915
Folding camera for 5 inch wide roll film 4 3/4 x 3 3/4 inch. Optional plate back rapid rectilinear lens f/8-64. Bausch and Lomb Unicum shutter 1/2/5/25/50/100/B with pneumatic release valve. Sliding, rising and cross front, rising movement locked by spiral floating on supporting pillars. Rack and pinion focusing, scale calibrated for films and plates. With brilliant reflecting finder.

Lloyd rollfilm plate camera

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Collapsing A-form camera for 1 3/4 x 2 1/4 inch plates. Fitted with a rapid rectilinear lens rotating plate with three apertures 8/11/22. Shutter 25/50/100/T/B. Optical frame finder, front element sliding lens cap. Hooded ground glass focusing screen.

V.P. sprite camera

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Miniature folding plate camera, no makers name. Vest pocket "Sprite " camera. Folding camera for a 4 x 6 plates. F8, 11, 22 stops by swings plate. Shutter 25/50/100/TB Optical frame finder (glass cracked) Ground glass screen.

Miniature folding plate camera

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Bellieni plate camera, made by H. Bellieni, Nancy. Tapered boxform camera for 9 x 12 cm pictures. Lens missing; adjustable I/T shutter. Screw adjusted cross front with vernier scale, do. Rising front. Large optical frame finder: front lens incorporates pendulum wire; rear lens adjustable for parallax with two vernier scales. Plate changing box with 12 metal plate sheaths; two spirit levels; automatic exposure counter.

Bellieni plate camera

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1905
Collapsing camera for 6 x 4.2cm plates. Fitted with a single lens, Objectif Periscopique. Fixed aperture and focus, astra no.2 shutter, I/B. Optical frame finder. No rear sight. E.V.C., Paris and Lyon.

Le Vricour plate camera

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Le Merveilleux plate camera, made by J Lancaster & Sons. Wooden stand camera for 3 1/4 x 4 1/4 plates, folding. Lens missing. Rack and pinion focussing. No movements. Swing out focussing screen. Wooden field camera for quarter-plates. (M2700)

Le Merveilleux plate camera

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1890
Lazy tong strut collapsing camera for 15x5cm approx. plates. Coupled coincidence rengefinder working on struts. Oskar Mikut, Dresden Mikutar lens F:130mm, apperture calibrated 2.3.4.5. No 1162, Compur shutter 1/2/5/10/25/50/100/200/B/T, delayed action. Mirrored beam splitting system behind lens gives three pictures side by side. Sprung hinged filter holders 4.5cm square in front of focal plane, Direct optical finder with folding back sight. Focusing Screen.

Mikut colour camera

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1936
Folding bellows camera for plates or cut film negative size 2 1/2 x 3 1/2". Has double extension and rising front. Cross movement and rack and pinion focusing. Fitted with Jack Rathenow Anastigmat F.3.9 135mm f.1 mounted in a dial set Compur shutter, with speeds 1sec 1/200 sec B. & T. Metal frame finer mounted with a brilliant waist-level viewfinder attached to front standard. Metal construction. c.1923

Folding bellows camera for plates or cut film

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1923
Sanderson half-plate camera. Half-plate camera in wood and brass, folding bellows, double extension. Swing back and front, rising front. Lens panels with: 1. Cooke anastigmat lens Series II f4.5 6 inch by TT and H. 2. Thornton-Pickard time shutter with Busch rapid aplanat No.2, f8, 8" lens.

Sanderson half-plate camera

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No 4 Zenith camera model of 1899, manufactured by Eastman Kodak Company. Box camera for 5 x 4" plates. Achromatic lens, rotating plate with three apertures, rotary shutter T/I, rack and pinion focusing, two reflecting finders, ground glass focusing screen (glass missing). No 4425. With one double dark slide. Overall: 160 mm x 140 mm x 280 mm.

No 4 Zenith box camera model of 1899

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1899
No.8 Premo No.3A folding bellows camera for negatives 3 1/4 x 5 1/2 using plates or cutfilm. Drop-front pull-out standard type with single bellows extension. Lens panel has rising movement. Fitted with a Kodak ball-bearing everset type shutter, speeds 1/25 1/100 sec B. & T. With back ground-glass screen and brilliant waist-level viewfinder.Made of wood with black leather covering. c.1913. Eastman Kodak, 1914.

No.8 Premo NO.3A folding bellows camera

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1914
Ross wetplate folding camera for plates 8 x 4 1/2 inches. Lens missing; provision for stereo, septum missing. Rack and pinion focusing on rear panel; top loading; sprung ground glass holder (glass missing); with single darkslide with reducer for 6 3/4 x 3 1/4 inch plates.

Ross wetplate folding camera

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Folding camera for 9 x 12cm plates. Fitted with a Zeiss Tessar lens F: 15cm f/4.5-36 No.464670. Wheel set compur shutter 1/2/5/10/25/50/100/150/B/T. Rack and pinion rising front, screw cross front, drop front, swing front. Triple extension on subsidiary runners. Rack and pinion (Helical cut) focusing. Vertical swing back, revolving back with round glass screen. Double spirit level on baseboard. Lenses on removable panel with two spare panels. Wire frame finder missing. Linhof, c.1928

Linhof camera

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1923-1933
Ihagee, Dresden. Single lens refelx box camera for 6x9cm plates. Simple lens; sliding plate with three apertures. T/I, exposure made by mirror rising to set off guillotine shutter. Fixed focus. With film pack back.

Ihagee Paff Plate Camera

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1921-30
Folding camera for 2 1/2 x 3 1/2 inch plates. Fitted with a Zeiss Tessar lens F: 10.5cm f/4.5-32 No. 1158642. Rim set compur shutter 1/2/5/10/25/50/100/250/B/T. Delayed action setting. Rotating brilliant reflecting shutter with level. Wire frame finder. Rack and pinion focusing with double extension. Ground glass focusing screen. No.49280. Kamera Werke. c.1930.

Etui camera

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1925-1935
Folding hand plate camera for 9x12cm plates. Extra Raid Aplanat lens f/8; compund shutter 1-1/250 sec. Reflecting finder; rack focusing, rising front. Double extension.

Wunsche Afpi plate camera

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1904
'The Challenge' a collapsible folding bellows hand or stand camera for negatives 5 x 4". With rack and pinion focusing. With brilliant optcial waist-level viewfinder with a rotating mask. Fitted with a Taylor T. Hobson Rapid Rectilinear lens F.8 approx, 5", f.1 mounted in a Bausch & lomb pneumatic shutter, speeds 1 1/100 sec B. & T. Has wooden lid to protect back ground-glass screen. Of mahogany with brass fittings.J, Lizars, c.1902.

'The Challenge' a collapsible folding bellows hand or stand camera

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c.1902
Voigtlander VAG folding bellows camera for plates or cutfilm, size 2 1/2 3 1/2". Drop-front pull-out type. Fitted with a Voigtlander Voigtar F.6.3 105mm f.1 lens mounted in an everset Ibsor shutter with speeds 1sec 1/125sec B. & T. With brilliant waist-level viewfinder and framefinder attached to front standard. All metal constructon with black leather. c.1920

Voigtlander VAG folding bellows camera

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1925-1935
A bellows caemra for plates or cutfilm, negative size 9 x 12 cm. Drop-front pull-out standard type, with simple focusing arrangement with manual distance setting. Fitted with an Ernemann Doublet lens F.11 135mm f.1 in an everset 3 speed shutter. With a brilliant waist-level viewfinder atttached to the front standard. Of wood and metal construction covered in black leather. c.1922.

bellows camera

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1915
Collapsible camera for 2 1/4 x 1 3/4 inch plates. Measures 6 1/2 x 9 inch x 2 cm. Single lens, fixed aperture and focus, B/I shutter, large frame finder, single metal plate holder. Ernemann, c.1914.

Ernemann Miniature plate camera 'Lilliput'

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1896-1909
Union plate camera made by Hugo Sockig and Co., Dresden, Bodenback and Zurich. Wooden folding camera for 9 x 12cm plates. Goerz Dopp Asastigmat lens series 1B Celor F:120mm, f.4.8 - No.173896, 2 blade everset shutter 1/2/5/25/50/100/B/T pneumatic valve releases; Focal plane shutter adjustable to 1/2500 seconds (broken). Sliding rising and cross fronts. Double extension bellows, rack and pinion focussing. Spirit level. (M 4600)

Union plate camera

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1907-1926
Collapsing camera for 2 1/2 x 3 1/2 inch plates. Fitted with a Goerz Dogmar lens F: 10cm f/4.5-36 No.482083. Three blade shutter 1/2/5/10/25/50/100/250/B/T. Focusing by wheel on body, moving struts and camera front. Folding optical frame finder with film pack adaptor. C.P. Goerz. c.1912.

Tenax camera

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1907-1917
Goerz Tenax folding bellows camera for rollfim No.120, 2 1/4 x 3 1/4". DRop-front pull-out type. With worm gear mechanism, focusing range 3ft to infintiy. Fitted with Goerz Dagor F.6.8 105mm lens in a Dial set Compur shutter, speeds 1-1/150 sec B. & T. With brilliant optical waist-level viewfinder attached to front standard. All metal construction with leather covering. c.1920

Goerz Tenax folding bellows camera

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c.1920
Collapsing klapp camera for 4.5 x 6 cm plates. Fitted with a Goerx Dopp. Anastigmat celor lens 1B F: 75mm f/4.5-32 No.320035. £ blade shutter 1/2/5/10/25/50/100/250/B/T. Folding optical frame finder. Screw focusing working on back of erecting struts. Ground glass focusing hood. No.56554. C.P. Goerz.

Vest pocket tenax camera

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1907-1917
Sanderson half-plate camera. Half-plate camera in wood and brass, folding bellows, double extension. Swing back and front, rising front. Lens panels with: 1. Cooke anastigmat lens Series II f4.5 6 inch by Taylor, Taylor and Hobson. 2. Thornton-Pickard time shutter with Busch rapid aplanat No.2, f8, 8" lens. Also includes, 3 wooden double darkslides and a velvet focussing cloth.

Sanderson half-plate camera

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Folding Pocket Cyco No 1 camera, 1901. Folding camera for 2 1/2 x 3 1/2 inch plates. Fitted with an achromatic lens, sliding plate with two apertures. T/I shutter. Reflecting finder. When closed, the aluminum bodied camera is flat and very compact. It opens to a roughly triangular shape. Sold by J.J. Griffin and Co.

Folding Pocket Cyco No 1 Camera

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1901
Folding camera for 3.25x4.25 inch plates; Busch Anastigmat lens F:5 inch f/6; Unicum shutter 1-1/100; pneumatic release; reflecting finder missing; folding optical frame finder added; sliding rising and cross front; sliding focusing; with 4 single metal darkslides.

Houghton folding plate camera (Cameo?)

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1904-1915
Folding camera for 4 3/4 x 6 1/2 inches plates. Fitted with an Aldis Uno anastigmat lens F: 7.5 inches f/7.7-45. Lukos III shutter 1/2/5/10/25/50/100/B/T. Lens and shutter on 2 point bayonet mount. Large reflecting rotating brilliant finder with missing level. Screw rising front, sliding cross front. Rack and pinion focusing, double extension. Ground glass focusing screen cross front. NO. D.10508.

Klimax plate camera

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1912
Quarte-plate folding hand camera for 3 1/4 x 4 1/4 inch plates. Fitted with an Extra rapid aplanat lens F:130mm f/7.7 in Kodamatic shutter 2/5/10/25/50/100/200/B/T (not original). Rack and pinion focusing, extra extension. Sliding rising front. Collapsing brilliant rotating reflecting finder. Ground glass focusing screen. No.40986.

Quarter plate hand camera

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Folding metal plate camera, German, no makers name. Folding metal camera for 9 x 12cm plates. Single lens f12, 20, 40 apertures in rotating quadrant. BTI shutter. Sliding focusing inf.-6'. Focusing screen; simple wire frame finder.

Folding metal plate camera

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1920
9 x 12cm plate camera, folding type. Fitted with a Primar anastigmat lens F: 13.5c, f/6.3-50 No.72665. Vario shutter 25/50/100/B/T. Sliding focusing. Brilliant reflecting finder. Ground glass focusing screen. Cable release. Filmpack adaptor. No maker.

9 x 12cm plate camera

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Folding camera for plates 3 1/4 x 4 1/4 inches. Fitted with a Bausch and Lomb rapid rectilinear lens US 4-128. Unicum shutter 1/2/5/25/50/100/T/B/ With rack and pinion focusing, double extension and a sliding rising and cross front. With a brilliant reflecting rotating finder on baseboard. Swing back, Ground glass focusing screen. Reversible back. Spirit level (dry) on baseboard. Eastman kodak.

No 3 Eastman Plate camera, Series D

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1902-1904
Folding camera for 3 1.4 x 4 1/4 inch plates. Fitted with a rapid rectilinear lens, sliding plate with three apertures, automatic shutter, separate releases for T/I. Rotating reflecting finder on base board, sliding focusing, ground glass focusing screen in spring back. Eastman Kodak.

Eastman series A plate camera

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1897
collapsible folding bellows field or stand camera for negatives 3 1/4 x 4 1/4. With double extension bellows with cutt off corners, swing and reversing back, rising and tilting front with rack and pinon focusing. Fitted with a Taylor t. Hobson Cooke Primoplane lens F.6.5 4" f.1 mounted in a Thornton Pichard roller blind shutter with speeds 1/15, 1/90 sec B. Likely to be a Thornton Pickard Imperial. Of mahogany with brass fittings. c.1905

Collapsible folding bellows field or stand camera

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1900-1910
Box camera for 4 1/4 x 3 1/4 inch quarter plates. Fitted with a Ross Zeiss anastigmat lens F:136mm f/8-64. No 4590/ Kalee roller blind shutter behind the lens, 17/22/30/35/50/65/B. Sliding, rising and cross front, rack and pinion focusing, two brilliant reflecting finders, two spirit levels, ground glass focusing screen in spring back, storage compartment for two double darkslides, tripod screw in holder inside camera front. J.T. Chapman.

The British Box Plate Stand camera

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