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For 18x12cm plates in rapid changer. Voigtlander Heliar lens F:24cm f/4.5 No 143941. Zeiss red filter in pivoted mount; fabric focal plane shutter. Large folding frame finder, ball front-sight. No FKI 1522.

ICA Model N aero camera

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The Pocket Ray camera. Wooden folding plate camera for 4 1/3 x 4 1/4 plates. Rochester Optical Camera Co. Gem lens RR F:5" cf * Stops number 8-128, T/B/I shutter; pneumatic release valve. Sliding focussing. Rotating brilliant reflecting finder on baseboard. (M 2648). Comes with three plates, each marked '1', '4', '6'.

The Pocket Ray camera

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1904
Cycle Poco camera No. 3, made by Rochester Camera and Supply Co. Wooden folding bellows camera for 5 x 4" plates. Rapid rectilinear lens, F:6 1/2", f8-128. Unicum shutter 1/2/5/25/100/B/T. sliding rising front; sliding focusing 100-6'. Reflecting finder on baseboard contains ball bearing for level. (M1404)

Cycle Poco Camera No 3

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1893
W Butcher. Felling plate magazine box camera 3 1/4 x 4 1/4". Primus RR lens f/11. Three magnifiers for 12,8,4 feet. Varriable shutter. No D20512.

No 0 Midg Camera

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1900
Eclipse plate camera, made by J. F. Shew & Co. London. Collapsing A form, wooden camera for RR lens, rotating aperture plate f/8,11,16,32. Rotary shutter T/I. Helical screw and lever focusing inf.- 1 1/2 yards. Shew removable , reflecting finder. 1 double wooden bookform darkslide. No focusing screen. (M477)

Eclipse plate camera

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1896
Two double dark slides for a folding bellows hand or stand camera. c.1906

Folding bellows hand or stand camera

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c.1906
Bellows Plate, Junior Imperial Number 9 Camera. 4x5 plate camera. RR lens, Wollensack TBL shutter. Rising front by click stops. Hinged reflecting finder.

Junior Imperial number 9 camera

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1880-1890
Plate camera for 8 1/2 x 6 1/2 inch plates. Rack and pinion focusing on front and rear panels. Screw-on bed for double extension. Sliding and rising front, swing front. Screw swing back both movements. Reversible back. Of brass and mahogany construction. Kodak Limited.

Kodak view camera model B

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Folding camera for 7 x 5 inch plates, no lens or shutter, rack and pinion focusing with double extension, sliding rising and cross front, brilliant rotating reflecting finder on base board, vertical and horizontal swing back and reversible back. Eastman Kodak, c.1901.

No 5 series D Eastman plate camera

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1896-1906
Folding camera for 2 1/2 x 4 1/2 inch film packs. Fitted with an achromatic lens, iris diaphragm numbers 1-4, ball bearing shutter 25/50/100/B/T. Brilliant reflecting rotating finder, focusing by two slot location of lens panel. No 1319. Eastman Kodak.

Premoette Junior No 1A camera

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1912-1916
Box folding camera for 3 1/4 x 4 1/4 inch plates. Fitted with an achromatic lens, rotating plate with three apertures, US 8/16/32. Built in Kodet shutter, T/I slow-fast adjustment, rotating reflecting finder, sliding focusing, storage compartment behind screen for three plate holders, or roll holders. Back panel is missing. Eastman Kodak. 1894-1897.

No 3 Folding Kodet Kodak camera

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1894-1897
Folding camera for 2 1/2 x 3 1/4 inch film pack. Fitted with an achromatic lens, iris diaphragm numbers 1-4. Ball bearing shutter 25/50/B/T. Focusing by two locating lots for front panel. Collapsing optical frame finder. No 9724. Eastman Kodak.

premoette junior camera

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1911
Eastman Kodak Co. Folding camera for 4" x 5" plates. Bausch and Lomb rapid rectilinear lens, U.S. 4 - 128, Unicum shutter, 1/2/5/25/50/100/B/T with pneumatic release valve, sliding rising and cross front, rack and pinion focusing with extra extension, brilliant reflecting rotating finder on base board, spirit level, swing back both directions, reversable bacl, no 792. Overall (deployed): 165 mm x 152 mm x 220 mm.

Eastman Plate Camera No 4 Series C

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1905-1915
Folding camera for 2 1/2 x 3 1/2 inches plates. Fitted with an extra rapid aplanat lens f/8-44. Everset shutter 25/50/100/B/T. Screw rising front, sliding cross front. Brilliant reflecting rotating finder with spirit level. Rack and pinion focusing. Added folding optical frame finder.

Folding hand plate camera

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1902
Box bellows camera for 3 1/4 x 4 1/4 inch plate. Takes two at a time. Fitted with two meniscus lenses, rotating plates with three apertures, T/I shutter of three speeds, unmarked. Rack and pinion focusing. Brilliant reflecting viewfinder. There are 13 metal sheaths in the back but no apparent provision for changing. Perhaps darkroom loaded. Made of black stained wood. Probably home made.

Box stereo plate camera

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Phonix hand plate camera. Folding camera for plates 3 1/4 x 4 1/4 inches. Gilt metal - Laack Doppel Anastigmat Dialytar lens F:135mm f/4.5-25 No 133446. Compur shutter 1/2/5/10/25/50/100/200/B/T. Rack and pinion focusing; screw rising and cross front. Refelcting viewfinder missing (replaced by substitute August 1979).

Phönix Hand Plate Camera

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1920-1929
Box magazine camera for 4 1/4 x 3 1/4 inch plates. Single lens, rotating aperture plates f/8/11/16/32. Two close up lenses on rotating plate 4' and 8' T/I shutter. Two reflecting finders, falling plate changing mechanism, automatic counter to 24, sliding knob operated.

Magazine box plate camera

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Magazine box plate camera for 3 1/4 x 4 1/4 plates. Fitted with a rapid rectilinear lens, rotating aperture plate, f/8/11/16/22. Adjustable shutter 25/50/90/T 3 screw on supplementary lenses, 9 feet, 6 feet and 3 feet in holders behind huge front panel with socket for ISO screen. Fall type plate holder knob operated with 6 metal plates and exposure counter. British.

magazine box plate camera

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Quarter-plate camera. Zeiss Tessar lens, 12cm, f6.3, No 351491. Kollos shutter (pneumatic delay). In case with 5 metal darkslides.

Quarter-plate camera

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1920
S L Thistle monogram magazine box plate camera for 3 1/4 x 4 1/4 plates. Doublet lens f/12-48 rotating plate with lenses infinity 18/10/4/ T/I shutter, adjustable S-R. Two hooded reflecting finders lever operated rocking frame, falling plate mechanism, exposure counter to 12.

magazine box plate camera

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Goerz Anschutz collapsible strut camera for negatives 1/4 plate size 3 1/4 x 4 1/4". With focal plane shutter. Fitted with a Goerz Dagor F.6.8 150mm lens. c.1912

Goerz Anschutz collapsible strut camera

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c.1912
Scovill Detective camera for 4x5 inch plates, fitted with R and J Beck rectilinear 7 inch lens Serial No 2448. With lens cap, set of Waterhouse stops and one double dark slide. Manufactured by Scovill Manufacturing Co., USA, 1887. Overall (closed): 245 mm x 152 mm x 277 mm.

Scovill Detective camera for 4x5 inch plates

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'The International' folding bellows tailboard field or stand camera. With one sliding panel. The 'Rectigraph' lens is a Rapid Rectilinear approx 12" focal length, aperture F.8. Iris diaphragm was added later. Originally fitted with Waterhouse stops. Lancaster. c. 1885

'The International' folding bellows tailboard field or stand camera

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1887
'The Instantograph' folding bellows field or stand camera for negatives 3 1/4 4 1/4". Has double extension, square leather bellows, double swing back, reversing back, rising front and rack and pinion focusing. Fitted with a Lancaster & Son 'Wide Angle Rectigraph' lens. Of mahogany with brass fittings. Lancaster, c.1889

'The Instantograph' folding bellows field or stand camera

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1889
Folding camera for 3 1/4 x 4 1/4 inch plates. Lens missing. 41mm ID flange. Rack and pinion focusing. Double extension. Sliding rising front. Swing back. Reversible back with Lancaster patent swing out ground glass screen. J Lancaster and son.

Lancaster 1896 Instantograph camera

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Le Franceville camera. L F G and Cie. Miniature sliding body camera. 4. 5x4. 5x6 cm. Simple lens, sliding strip 'shutter'. Takes 40x40mm plate. Overall: 50 mm x 50 mm x 66 mm.

Le Franceville camera

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1910
Magazine box camera for 3 1/4 x 4 1/2 inch plates. Fitted with a Beck symmetrical lens f/8-45. With a Bausch and Lomb Unicum shutter /2/5/25/50/100/B/T. Lens carried on panel within camera. Shutter cocked by cord to outside. Rack and pinion focsing. Small bellows connecting lens panel to camera body interior. Front door with lens cover stamped Rd.389460. Two brilliant reflecting finders. Falling plate mechanism, plates arranged horizontally in 12 metal sheaths. Operated by sliding knob. Plate counter. Sheaths marked Rd.353727. Sold by John Pigott Limited. 118 Cheapside and Milk Street, London.

Magazine plate camera

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Folding camera for 3 1/4 x 4 1/4 inch plates. Three interchangeable lens sets: Voigtlander Collinear III F:12c, f/6.8-32 No.82740. Fitted with a Busch Bis-Telar lens No.2 F:9 inches f/9-32 No.35242 with spacer and a wider angle lens F:7cm f/11-45 all in fitted case by Benetfink & Company with large flange key. Automat shutter 1/2/5/25/50/100/B/T, Iris calibrated for all three lenses. Screw and lever rising front, rack and pinion focusing. Sliding cross front. Focusing scales for wide-angle and standard lens, latter adjustable for plates or Houghtons envelope back fitted with integral screen and hood with a separate screen. No makers name but sold by Benetfink & Company. Comes with a plate holder.

Folding Quarter-Plate Camera

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1910
Sangar Sheppard type one-exposure tri-colour camera, 1902, with side panel and two dark slide sheaths.

Sanger Sheppard Type One-Exposure Tri-Colour Camera

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1902
Watson 10 x 8 inch camera. Folding stand camera for 10 x 8 inch plates. Fitted with a Watson rapid rectilinear lens f/8-64, Serial No 2580 in aluminum mount. Sliding rising front, swing front and back. Reversible back with ground glass focusing screen. Built in tripod turntable. No.7907. Manufactured by W Watson & Sons, 313 High Holborn, London.

Watson 10 x 8 plate camera

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KLITO folding bellows camera for negative size 3 1/4 x 4 1/4". Drop-front pull-out standard with rising front movement. Fitted with a Meniscus lens and rotating diaphragm with 4 apertures, 12, 17, 24,34 in a 2 -position shutter, inst. and T. operated by a lever in front of lens. Ground-glass screen. All wood construction covered in black leather. Houghton's, c.1900

KLITO folding bellows camera

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1900
Nydia camera. Collapsing camera for 3 1/4 x 4 1/4 plates. Fitted with a Zeiss ProtarlEnse F:240mm f/6.3-45 No 47534. N & G 2 blade shutter 2/4/8/16/32/64/100/T. Lever focusing by scale. Combination of swing front and back gives rising front. Detachable reflecting finder can be fitted for horizontal or vertical pictures. Hinged spirit level on back. Bagtype plate changer for holding 12 sheaths. Lever device with automatic plate counter ejects plates into bag. 513. Spare body with torn bag. Manufactured by Newman & Guardia, London.

Nydia camera

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1900
Eclipse collapsible bellows camera Patent No. 4102. for single dry plates, negative size 3 1/4 x 4 1/4. Lens panel supported by two wooden braces. Fitted with a focusing COOKE Series III F.6.5 5.7" lens mounted in a pneumatic compound shutter, with speeds 1 1/100 sec B. & T. Fitted in a helical mount. J F Shew c.1908

Eclipse collapsible bellows camera

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c.1908
Minimum cameo collapsible folding bellows hand or stand camera for negatives 4 3/4 x 6 1/2. Rack and pinion focusing which operates focusing and double extension. With brilliant waist-level viewfinder with spirit level. With back ground-glass screen. Lens panel has rising front and cross front movement. Fitted with a Rapid Rectilinear F.8 approx 7.5" f.1 mounted in a pneumatic shutter called automatic with speeds 1 -1/100sec B. & T. Made of wood and aluminium covered in black leather. Butcehr, c.1920.

Minimum cameo collapsible folding bellows hand or stand camera

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c.1920
Folding camera for 3 1/2 rollfilm camera or plates 3 1/4 x 4 1/4. Extra rapid aplanat lens no.0 f/8-44. Two blade shutter (Unicum type) 1/2/5/25/50/100/B/T. Sliding rising front. Sliding focusing with two scales for plates and films. Brilliant reflecting finder in base board. With ground glass screen in plate back. No 61466. London Stereoscopic Company.

Stereoscopic Company rollfilm plate camera

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Cameo camera. Folding camera for 2 1/2 x 3 1/2" plates. Velos Anastigmat lens Series V, f/7.7-45, No 121369; Lukos II shutter, 25/50/100/T/B. Cable release. Brilliant refelcting rotating finder. Screw rising, sliding cross, front. Sliding focusing. With filmpack adaptor back.

Cameo camera

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c. 1910
Folding plate camera, 1/4 plate. Ross Xpres lens 6" f4.5, No 102694. Compound type shutter. No 822. 1 double darkslide.

Adams Vesta Camera

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1893-1899
Sinclair & Co Uno Cameo with single bellows extension for plates or sheetfilm 3 1/4 x 4 1/4. Pull down front with moving front standard. Focusing scale on right of the base. Fitted with a Zeiss Double Amatar F.6.8 15cm lens in a pneumatic compound shutter, speeds 1-1/250 B. & T. c.1912

Sinclair & Co Uno Cameo

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1912
Pecto No 2 folding plate camera for 3 1/4 x 4 1/4 inch plates. Fitted with a rapid rectilinear lens f/8, aperture scale missing. Rauber and Wollensak Optical Company shutter t/b//i. Sliding focusing. Sliding, rising front. Reflecting rotating finder on baseboard. Ground glass focusing screen in sprung back. Colombia Optical Co, London.

Pecto No 2 Plate Camera

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1895-1905
Folding camera for 2 1/2 x 3 1/2 inch plates. Fitted with a Ross Xpres lens F:136mm f/4.5-32 No.115077. Helical focusing mount and bayonet fitting. Patent fabric focal plane shutter 10/15/20/30/50/100/200/400/800/B/T. Rising and falling front. Vertical swing front, screw adjusted. Ground glass reflex focusing screen, deep hood with twin lens magnifier. Rotating back with ground glass screen. No. FR 533. Newman and Guardia.

Newman and Guardia folding reflex camera

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1921-1930
Marion's metal miniature camera, c. 1887. Nickel plated brass camera for 2 x 2 inch plates. Fitted with a double rapid rectilinear type lens, fixed aperture, simple drop shutter. Sliding focusing. Ground glass screen, removable to take single metal slides.

Marion's metal miniature camera

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1882-1892
Dallmeyer plate camera. Box/bellows form camera for 3 1/4" x 4 1/4" plates. Dallmeyer Series 2 No. 2 stigmatic lens No. 64855 in Goerz diaphragm shutter opening f6-45. 2/3/5/10/75/100/150. Sliding rising and cross front. Focal plane shutter fitted; adjustable. Rack and pinion focussing working on rear. Fitted with Adams changing box for plates; with 24 metal cutfilm holders. Two reflecting brilliant finders; two spirit levels.

Dallmeyer plate camera

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1910
Klein Tricolour camera manufactured by Bellingham and Stanley Ltd., 1936-1937, with wooden box, plus cardboard glass plate box containing six separation negatives (two sets).

Klein Tricolour camera

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1936-1937