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Thornton-Pickard Amber camera

Thornton-Pickard Amber camera

circa 1897

Sliding Body Box Camera

Sliding Body Box Camera

1860

Thornton Pickard Imperial Triple Extension Camera

Thornton Pickard Imperial Triple Extension Camera

Thornton Pickard 'College' folding bellows hand or stand camera, c 1910 with Case

Thornton Pickard 'College' folding bellows hand or stand camera, c 1910 with Case

1905-1915

McKellen Folding Hand or Stand Camera

McKellen Folding Hand or Stand Camera

circa 1890

Collapsible Folding Bellows Hand or Stand Camera

Collapsible Folding Bellows Hand or Stand Camera

circa 1910

Folding Camera for Whole Plates

Folding Camera for Whole Plates

The 1889 Instantograph Camera

The 1889 Instantograph Camera

1889

Kodak Studio Stand Camera

Kodak Studio Stand Camera

Studio Stand Camera

Studio Stand Camera

Thornton-Pickard Royal Ruby Camera

Thornton-Pickard Royal Ruby Camera

circa 1920

Large Half Plate Stand Camera

Large Half Plate Stand Camera

Daguerreotype portrait camera

Daguerreotype portrait camera

1857-1860

Hare quarterplate stand camera

Hare quarterplate stand camera

Gandolfi 'Universal' Camera

Gandolfi 'Universal' Camera

Sanderson Folding Bellows Field or Stand Camera.

Sanderson Folding Bellows Field or Stand Camera.

1899-1909

Triple Victo Stand Camera

Triple Victo Stand Camera

Pullman Camera

Pullman Camera

EMPRESS Whole Plate Stand Camera

EMPRESS Whole Plate Stand Camera

Half Plate Stand Camera

Half Plate Stand Camera

Triple Diamond Folding Bellows Field or Stand Camera

Triple Diamond Folding Bellows Field or Stand Camera

Thornton Pickard folding bellows field or stand camera, c 1890

Thornton Pickard folding bellows field or stand camera, c 1890

1885-1895

Sanger-Shepherd Camera

Sanger-Shepherd Camera

Hand and Stand Camera and One Darkslide.

Hand and Stand Camera and One Darkslide.

1895

The Una Camera

The Una Camera

The Sanderson Folding Bellows Field or Stand Camera

The Sanderson Folding Bellows Field or Stand Camera

c. 1903

'Artist' Twin Lens Plate Camera

'Artist' Twin Lens Plate Camera

1889

Sands, Hunter & Co Stand Camera

Sands, Hunter & Co Stand Camera

Watson & Sons Folding Bellows Tailboard Field and Stand Camera, c 1890

Watson & Sons Folding Bellows Tailboard Field and Stand Camera, c 1890

1885-1895

Exhibition Camera by Sands and Hunter

Exhibition Camera by Sands and Hunter

Folding stand triple extension camera for 3 1/4 x 4 1/4 inch plates. Fitted with an Aldis anastigmat lens No.2 f/6-45 No. 40668 (Aldis). Thornton Pickard Time and Instantaneous shutter 15/30/45/75/90/T. Sliding and rising front, sliding cross and falling front. Swing front and back. Reversible back. Rack and pinion focusing on front and rear panels with triple extension. Built in tripod turntables. Separate tripod legs. Thornton-Pickard.

Thornton Pickard Imperial Triple Extension Camera

1905-1915

Folding stand camera for 3 1/4 x 4 1/4 plates. With a W Banks Bolton wide angle lens F: 5 1/2 inches rotating wheel with stops f/17, 23, 35, 46 No. 56. Sliding rising and cross front. Front standard fixed. Rack and pinion focusing on rear panel, double extension. Reversible back with hinged ground glass screen. Vertical swing back. Square bellows. Reynolds and Branson.

Reynolds and Branson quarter plate stand camera

1895-1905

Folding stand camera for 3.25x4.25 inch plates; Lancaster patent lens with iris disphragm: f/10; rising and cross front, swing back; track and pinion focusing on lens panel; ground glass screen in Lancaster patent swing-out mount.

Lancaster 1893 Instantograph camera

1893

Folding stand camera for 3 1/4 x 4 1/4 inches. 43mm lens flange, on 67 x 100mm removable panel. Sliding rising front on lens panel and on front. Swing front and back. Rack and pinion focusing on back. Pendulum level on back. Reversible back, hinged ground glass focusing screen. Dark red leather bellows. With a Cooke Series III lens ( H D Taylor's patent). F:5.5inches, f/6.5-45, Taylor, Taylor Hobson No. 9828. Bausch and Lomb Unicum shutter 1/2/5/25/50/100/B/T. With two lens caps. No.4205.

The Sanderson camera

Folding stand camera for 3 1/4 x 4 1/4 inch plates. No lens fitted. Rack and pinion focusing on rear panel. Sliding rising front. Swing back. Hinged swing out focusing screen. Two tripod bushes for vertical or horizontal use. W. Watson and sons Ltd. Maker's name on back plate.

Watson quarterplate stand camera

Folding hand stand camera for 3 1/4 x 4 1/4 plates. Fitted with a Ross combinable lens F: 5 3/4 inches, 9 1/2 and 10 1/4 inches, f/5.7-45 or f/11-64 No.133714, 133713. Rimset compur S shutter 1/2/5/10/25/50/100/200/B/T, delayed action. Slidng and rack and pinion focusing. Double extension. Secondary rack and pinion within body for wide angle lens use. Flap in body top to permit extra rise. Ground glass focusing scree with sprubg folding hood. Drop front. Spririt level on baseboard. REflecting viewfinder missing. Of ebonised black wood and plated metal finish. No. 26352 Body C 910. Houghton-Butcher. c.1930.

The Ensign Sanderson camera

1925-1935

Folding stand camera for plates 4 3/4 x 6 1/2 inches. Fitted with a 7 x 5 inch rapid rectilinear lens with 6 Waterhouse stops, f/8, 11, 16, 22, 32, 44. Sliding rear panel, swing back. Pendulum level and reversible back. No 3333.

Half Plate Stand Camera

Lancaster, 1887, Instograph stand camera, by J. Lancaster and Son. Folding stand camera, mahogany and brass fittings. Achromat Lancaster lens F:8" c.f.11 iris calibrated 10-40, time 1-16. Sliding rising front; double extension, swing back. Lancaster patent swing-out focusing screen. Shoe for concave lens viewfinder with rotating mask. Lancaster's patent rotating shutter. Tripod head fitted to camera; separate legs - 2 section folding - extending to 4' 6". Spiked tip. .

Lancaster Instograph stand camera

1882-1892

Folding stand camera for 6 1/2 x 8 1/2 inch plates. Fitted with an Aldis NO. 4 lens F:10 inches f/6-64 No. 12360. Thornton Pickard Time and Inst. Roller blind shutter 15/25/40/60/80/T, with cable release. Sliding rising front. Rack and pinion focusing, double extension. Tapered bellows and swing front and back. Pendulum level with a rotating back, ground glass screen and a built in royalty tripod head with legs. Billcliff.

Billcliff Plate Camera

1895

Folding stand camera for 4 3/4 x 6 1/2 inch plates. No lens. Fitted with a Thornton Pickard Time and Instantaneous shutter on front panel 15/30/45/75/90/T and a focal plane fabric shutter on front panel 25/55/90/115/140/200/400/600/800/1000/. With rack and pinion focusing on the front panel and sliding rising and cross front. Swing front and back with a tripod turntable built in. Protected by Registration 529946 ad 529947. Thornton Pickard.

Thornton-Pickard imperial triple extension camera

1894 Instantograph camera, by J Lancaster and Son, Birmingham. Folding bellows stand camera for 1/4 plate. Achromat Lancaster lens, iris calibrated 10-30. Time 1-8. Sliding rising front; swing back. Swing out ground glass screen.

1894 Instantograph camera

1894

Folding stand camera for 5x7" plates. Sliding rising and swing front, swing back. Triple extension bellows - front by rack and pinion, rear by worm screw and handle. Ground glass swings out, by Lancaster patent mount. Brass and mahogany; no lens.

Lancaster 1889 Extra Special camera

1884-1894

Folding stand camera for 4 3/4 x 6 1/2" plates. No makers name but ? Middlemiss. Mahogany and brass folding stand camera for 4 3/4 x 6 1/2" plates. No lens or panel. Front panel located by stud and keyslot, two positions. Rack and pinion focusing double extension . Sliding rising front , swing back. No.3383.

Folding stand camera for 4 3/4 x 6 1/2" plates

Folding bellows field or stand camera with triple extension. Fitted with a Symmetrical lens, F.8, 9inch f.l. Fitted in front of a Thornton Pickard roller blind shutter, speeds 1/5 to 1/90 sec. B. & T. c.1890.

The "Imperial" Folding Bellows Field or Stand Camera and Three Book Form Double Darkslides.

1885-1895

Mahogany and brass stand camera for 4 3/4 x 6 1/2 plates. Fitted with an Underwood rapid rectilinear lens F: 9 inches f/8-64. Thornton Pickard time and inst. Roller blind shutter, 15/25/40/60/80/T. Sliding, rising and cross front, rack and pinion focusing on rear panel, double extension, swing back, square bellows, with tripod head. Underwood.

Underwood Instanto Tailboard Field Camera

circa 1896

Stand camera for 3 1/4 x 4 1/4 inch plates. With a simple landscape lens in rack and pinion mount and fixed aperture. Sliding rising and cross front. Small amount of swing on back. Ground glass focusing screen on hinged frame. Camera disassemblies back has two sets of half hinges on two adjacent sides. Front has two screws locating in long keyhole slots in baseboard. Removable single side strut. Baseboard separate. J Lancaster & Son, c.1886.

Le Meritoire camera

1881-1891

Stand camera for 6 1/2 x 8 1/2 inch plates. no lens. Sliding rising front. Rack and pinion focusing. Vertical swing back. Ground glass focusing screen in reversible back. Tripod turntable built in. Sold by Spiers and Pond's Stores, Queen Victoria Street.

Whole Plate Stand Camera

Stand camera for 9 x 12 cm plates. Front panel fixed, rear panel moves by rack and pinion. Hinged base board locked by sliding section. Thornton Pickard Time shutter, sliding rising and cross front.. Swing back both movements, ground glass screen in spring back, rotatable. Nickel plated finish on metal parts.

Stand Plate camera

1900

Folding stand camera for 4 3/4 x 6 1/2 inch plates. Fitted with a rapid rectilinear lens F: 8 1/2 inches, f8-64, Thornton Pickard T & I shutter behind lens, 15/30/45/75/90/T front locates by key slots, locked with struts, sliding rising front, swing back, rack and pinion focusing, on rear panel, double extension, hinged out ground glass screen with tapering bellows.

Half Plate Stand Camera

Folding stand camera for 3 1/4 x 4 1/4 inch plates. Fitted with an Aldis anastigmat lens No.2a F;6.5 inches, f/6.3-45, No106595. With a Thornton pickard Time and inst. Roller blind shutter behind the lens. 15/30/45/75/90/T. Sliding and rising front. Rack and pinion focusing, double extension. Vertical swing back. Lens panel is located by pin and keyhole slot. Reversible back with ground glass focusing screen in hinged frame. Built in tripod turntable.

Quarter-Plate Stand Camera

1910