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Thornton-Pickard Amber camera

circa 1897

Folding Camera for Whole Plates

Studio Stand Camera

Collapsible Folding Bellows Hand or Stand Camera

circa 1910

Large Half Plate Stand Camera

The 1889 Instantograph Camera

1889

McKellen Folding Hand or Stand Camera

circa 1890

Thornton-Pickard Royal Ruby Camera

circa 1920

Pullman Camera

EMPRESS Whole Plate Stand Camera

Daguerreotype portrait camera

1857-1860

Gandolfi 'Universal' Camera

Kodak Studio Stand Camera

Sanger-Shepherd Camera

Hand and Stand Camera and One Darkslide.

1895

Thornton Pickard folding bellows field or stand camera, c 1890

1885-1895

Sands, Hunter & Co Stand Camera

Exhibition Camera by Sands and Hunter

'Artist' Twin Lens Plate Camera

1889

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

1885-1895
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 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 4 3/4 x 6 1/2 inch plates. Fitted with a Beck Symmetrical lens f/8-45, interchangeable with pair of Achromat lenses f/11-44 both on front panel for roller blind shutter ? Thornton Pichard 15/30/45/76/90/T, with wire release. Sliding rising front, swing front. Rack and pinion focusing, triple extension on back and front panels. Swing back. Focusing screen is missing. Reversible back. With removable spring roller septum for stereo. With built in tripod turntable with separate legs. Sold by Westminster Photographic Exchange. With two Two wooden bookform double darkslides.

Half Plate Stand Camera

Dr. Merthe's colour camera, manufactured by Bennpohl, Berlin, 1903. With red leather bellows. No lens. Overall (deployed): 535 mm x 175 mm x 250 mm.

Dr Merthe's colour camera

1903
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 13 x 18cm plates. No makers name (but probably French or German). Folding plate camera in walnut with nickel fittings. No lens or panel. Sliding rising and cross front. Front fixed, back adjustable in three positions with peg and keyslot fittings. Rack and pinion focussing, double extension bellows. Hinged baseplate locked by sliding element. With one bookform wooden double darkslide.

Stand camera for 13 x 18cm plates

1900
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 wooden camera for 6 1/2 x 4 3/4 inch halfplates. No lens present. Sliding rising front. Double extension bellows, rack and pinion focusing, tripod turntable built into base. Swing back and ground glass screen holder with removable back.

Folding Wooden Stand Camera

1890
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
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 4 3/4 x 6 1/2 inch plates. Fitted with a C.P. Goerz Dogmar lens F:15cm f/4.5-36 No. 515048. Compur shutter 1/2/5/10/25/50/100/150/B/T. Swing front, rising front - sliding, considerable movement. Swing back. Rack and pinion focusing on front and rear panels with long extension. Reversible back with swing out ground glass. Built in large diameter tripod head.

Half-plate Stand camera

Folding stand camera for 4 3/4 x 6 1/2 inch plates.Fitted with a Beck symmetrical lens f/8-11. Studio diaphragm shutter, Sliding rising front. Bertical swing on back and front. Rack and pinion focusing on back and front. REversible back. Built in tripod turntable. Thrornton-Pickard.

Thornton Pickard Imperial Triple Extension Camera

Thornton Pickard 'College' folding bellows hand or stand camera for negatives 3 1/4 x 4 /14. With double extension, tapered bellows, swing and reversing back, rising and tilting front. Rack and pinion focusing. Supported by two brass struts. Fitted with an Aldis Anastigmat F.7.7 7 1/2" f.1 lens mounted in a Thornton Pickard roller blind shutter. Made of mahogany with brass fittings. Rubber air pressure release. c1910.

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

1905-1915
Lancaster 1901 B B Instantograph camera, folding stand camera for 4 3/4 x 6 1/2 inch plates. Fitted with a Lancaster Patent landscape achromatic lens, iris diaphragm marked 1-8 f/10-30. Sliding rising front, rack and pinion focusing with double extension. Swing back, both movements. Lancaster patent swing out ground glass focusing screen. Manufactured by J Lancaster and Son, Birmingham. 1901. This was a special 'tropical' version of the Instantograph - the letters BB stand for Brass Bound.

Lancaster B B Instantograph camera

1901
Stand camera for 4 3/4 x 6 1/2 inch plates. Lens and lens panel missing. Fixed front. Ornate strenthening plates. Rafck and pinion focusing on rear panel. Double extension. Tailboard construction. Sliding rising front swing back. Reversible back. Square bellows. Figured wood perhaps maple. Marsden.

Marsden Stand Camera

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
British made tapering wooden box, fixed focus daylight enlarger. For 3 1/4 x 4 1/4 inch pictures with removable mask for 2 1/2 x 3 1/2 negatives. Sliding guillotine shutter, lens missing, holder for 6 1/2 x 8 1/2 inch paper.

Mason stand camera

1885
Stand camera for 4 3/4 x 6 1/2 inch plates. Fitted with a Kodak Ektar lens F:203mm f/7.7-45, coated. With a Prontar SVS shutter 1/2/5/10/25/50/100/300/B. Delayed action, X and M synchronisation with coaxial flash socket. Sliding and rising front with vertical swing front. With rack and pinion focusing on front and rear panels. Worm and rack operated swing back, both movements. Reversible back and screw fitted. Spring ground glass focusing screen. Hinged calibrated baseboard with screw fitted extension bed. Grey and satin chrome finish. No.1981. Kodak Limited.

Kodak Specialist Stand Camera Model 2.

A collection of items relating to Gandolfi Ltd., hand-made camera manufacturers, 1939: Gandolfi `Precision' 5x7" camera, owned by Sir Kenneth Corfield

Gandolfi `Precision' Camera

1939
Teak folding quarter plate stand camera for 3 1/4 x 4 1/3 inch plates with nickel plated fittings. No lens. Rack and pinion focusing, double extension. Lens standards fixed by two keyslots and screw fittings. Two spirit levels, hinged ground glass focusing screen. Continental tripod bushes.

Quarterplate Stand Camera

1910
Stereoscopic stand camera for 6 1/4 x 3 1/2 inch plates. Fitted with two Grubb patent achromatic lenses Nos. 529,530. F: 6 inches with disc stops. Coarse helical thread focusing movement, marked 0-11. ON non original lens panel with inter lens separation by screw marked 2 3/4 - 3 1/3. Focal plane rollerblind shutter (fabric missing). Spirit level. Swing down ground glass screen.

Stereoscopic Stand Camera

1885
The Sanderson Regular camera. Folding stand and hand camera for 5 1/2 x 3 1/2 inch plates. Zeiss Tessar F: 13.5cm f/6.3-25 NO. 672986. Inso shutter 1/2/5/10/25/50/125/B/T/ Rack and pinion and sliding rising front. Swing front, drop front. Top of body opens to permit extra rise on wide angle lens. Rack and pinion focusing, double extension. Rack and pinion on lens panel slide in camera body. Reversible back. Ground glass screen masked to 1/4 plate. No. 25262. Houghtons Limited.

The Sanderson Regular Camera

George Houghton and Sons "The Sanderson Regular" folding bellows hand or stand camera for plates 6 1/2 x 4 3/4, c. 1906. With double extensions, tapered red leather bellows and a reversing back. With rack and pinion focusing. Fitted with a Goerz Double Anastigmat Series 111/2 F.6.3 180mm lens mounted in a Bausch & Lomb pneumatic shutters, speeds 1 sec 1/100sec B. & T. With brilliant waist level viewfinder. Of mahogany with brass fittings covered in black leather. With wooden double darkslide.

The Sanderson Folding Bellows Camera and Darkslide

1903
Stand camera for 3 1/4 x 4 1/4 inch plates. Fitted with a Watson F:4 inches revolving disc with four stops (wide angle lens for 4 3/4 x 6 1/2 inch camera ); a Watson F: 6 1/2 inches f/8-44 No.823 (for 5 x4); a Ross anastigmat F: 135mm 5 3/8 inches f/8-64, No. 4288 Zeiss Patent; a Watson F:11 inch rapid rectilinear f/8-64 No.4042( for 8 1/2 x 6 1/2 inches); A Dallmeyer telephoto attachment 2 1/2 inch focus, rack and pinion extension. With focusing screen magnifier. Rack and pinion focusing, double extension. Sliding rising front. Swing back. Reversible back with swing out focusing screen. Ball level. No. 9807. W Watson and Sons.

Watson quarterplate stand camera outfit

1900
Quarter plate stand camera, made by G.Hare, 26 Calthorpe Street, London. Folding bellows camera. Dallmeyer Series II No. la Stigmatic lens F:4" f6-45 No. 57481. Thrornton Pickard T/I shutter with Antinous release. Sliding rising and cross front. Clip-on reflecting brilliant finder with rotating mask. Pendulum level; rack and pinion focusing on rear panel. In poor leather case with 5 wooden double darkslides.

Hare Quarter Plate Stand Camera

Gandolfi square bellows tailboard camera, whole plate size; Taylor Hobson Cooke Anastigmat Series V lens, f/8 11 inch lens, Serial No 111408; also with six double dark slides, twelve lens panels and one roller blind shutter, f4 Ross Xpres wide angle lens Serial No 216669; Ross Homocentric f6.3 lens, No. 213388; f/5.5 Tele Ross lens No. 197885, c. 1930.

Gandolfi Square Bellows Tailboard Camera

1930
Hunter and Sands stand camera. Folding stand camera for 5x4 plates with Ross 5x4 rapid symmetrical lens. F: 6" with slot for Waterhouse stops, c.f.8. Sliding rising and cross front. Rack and pinion focusing on back double extension bellows. Swing back.

Hunter and Sands Stand Camera

1880
Half plate stand camera. Sliding rising front, rack and pinion focusing, vertical swing back. Pendulum level, reversible back, with hinged swing out focusing screen. Tripod turntable in base, patent 319/84. Inserted plate 'The Eastman Dry Plate and Film Co., 115 Oxford Street, London, manufacturers'. Patent 319/84. Steinheil lens. Overall (deployed): 240 mm x 210 mm x 260 mm.

Half plate stand camera. Sliding rising front

Gandolfi half-plate camera. Folding stand camera for 4 3/4 x 6 1/2 inch plates. With a Taylor, Taylor Hobson Series M Cooke Aviar lens F: 8 1/4 inches f/4.5-32 series II, Made in Leicester Serial No 87947. Thornton Pickard Time and Instantaneous Patent roller blind shutter 15/30/45/60/75/T. Spare lens panel with 38mm ID Mount. Rack and pinion focusing on rear panel, tailgate design. Sliding rising front, swing back. Reversible back ground glass focusing screen. Square bellows, double extension. Overall (deployed): 152 mm x 226 mm x 420 mm.

Gandolfi Half Plate Camera

The Una camera. Folding hand or stand camera for 4 3/4 x 6 1/2 inch plates. Lens no 255667 (pat. 11108/'04). Goerx pantar combination lens F: 11 3/4, 9 1/2 inches. Goerz diaphragm shutter calibrated with 6f/ scale 14 inches lens 12.5-64; 11 3/4 - 12.5-64, 12.5-64; 11 + 14 3/4 6.8-45; 14+ 9 1/2 7.2-45 shutter speeds 2/3/5/10/20/75/100/150/T. Rack and pinion rising front with sliding extension. Swing front, revolving back. Rack and pinion focusing with long extension. Baseboard calibrated in two scales from 5 to 15 1/2 inches in 1/2 inch steps. Ground glass focusing screen in detachable back. Manufactured by James A Sinclair & Co Ltd., 54 Haymarket, London SW.

The Una Camera