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Hand vice for polishing daguerreotype plates. D shaped wooden handle attached to wooden base; notched brass strips at each corner, one fixed, the others adjustable, fixed by butterfly nuts. For plates approximately 55 x 70mm. With one plate.

hand vice for polishing daguerrotype plates

Photographic Technology

1845-1855
132x162mm red Morocco leather case with two latches. Lined with plain red plush. Rectangular gilt mat with domed top. Picture bound but not framed. (One latch broken). 85x115mm daguerreotype full length portrait of mother with her four daughters. One sitting on her knees, the other three standing. Fully tinted. Some tarnishing along bottom edge.

Daguerreotype In Red Morocco Case by Mayall

Photographs
125x100mm dark brown restangular union case by Littlefield, Parsons and Company. Centre design of case similar to 1990-5036/UC03. Leaf design around edges. Flower motif in four corners. Trade paper. Oval gilt mat with shield design in four corners edged with leaves and surmounted with star. Purple plush lining with formal design. No picture.

Rectangular Union Case by Littlefield, Parsons and Company

Photographs
Lens for 6-inch altazimuth theodolite by Dollond, first half 19th century.

Lens for 6-inch altazimuth theodolite

Surveying

1801-1850
1/6th plate daguerreottype by Claudet. Subject: portrait of a girl.

1/6th plate daguerreottype by Claudet

Photographs
Brass weight to weigh 80 grains, made by Maw, Son and Thompson, London, 1870-1901

Brass weight to weigh 80 grains

Pharmacy-ware
Brass pan, made by Maw, Son and Thompson, London, 1870-1901

Brass pan

Pharmacy-ware
Scale beam ends, made by Maw, Son and Thompson, London, 1870-1901

Scale beam ends

Pharmacy-ware
Grass pan, made by Maw, Son and Thompson, London, 1870-1901

Glass pan

Pharmacy-ware
Metal headstand (incomplete) with two clamps.

Headstand

Photographic Technology
Clear glass flask, spherical with metal rim, by Ets Leune, 28 bis rue du Cardinal Lemoine, Paris, France, 1851-1900; stopper missing.

Clear glass flask with metal rim, 1851-1900

Laboratory Medicine

1851-1900
Faienceware decorative plate (marked TH Fenal faienceni de Badonviller, showing cartoon of interior of photographers studio, French c 1890; 8" diameter; transfer printed with blue martial images around rim around central black printed image of photographer's studio. Marking suggests connection with a Faience factory established by Nicholas Fenal in Bandonviller, France, in 1897, managed by Theophile Fenal after 1922.

Plate printed with cartoon of interior of photographers studio, c 1890

Photographs

1895-1914
For whole plate plictures; black composition; formal design on reverse.

Union Case With 'Washington Crossing The Delaware' Motif

Photographs
Nickel plated camera lucida, with g-clamp fitting, telescopic shaft. Plus ten correction lenses and fitlers, in fitted case.

Camera lucida and case, c 1820

Photographic Technology

1815-1825
Scales; small beam balance; glass scalepans; set of weights, in wooden box.

Apothecary's scales

Photographic Technology
Lens for 6-inch altazimuth theodolite by Dollond, first half 19th century.

Lens for 6-inch altazimuth theodolite

Surveying

1801-1850
Watch type actinometer with in-door meter dial. Watkins Meter Company.

Watkins indoor meter

Photographic Technology
Brass weight to weigh 60 grains, made by Maw, Son and Thompson, London, 1870-1901

Brass weight to weigh 60 grains

Pharmacy-ware
Brass pan-holder, made by Maw, Son and Thompson, London, 1870-1901

Brass pan-holder

Pharmacy-ware
Brass pan, made by Maw, Son and Thompson, London, 1870-1901

Brass pan

Pharmacy-ware
Camera with hole and cork for focussing, and rack for raising, c 1836-1840. Camera used by William Henry Fox Talbot. During 1838 and 1840 Talbot purchased a number of cameras to make photogenic drawings from the London instrument maker, Andrew Ross. This camera may derive from this source. Equipped with simple lens there is also an inspection hole in the lens panel above the lens that was use to check that the image was centrally located on the sensitive paper and correctly focused.

Early camera used by William Henry Fox Talbot, c 1838

Photographic Technology

1836-1840
Circular detective camera for 15cm diameter glass plates, six pictures 4cm pictures, Fitted with a rapid rectilinear lens, fixed aperture and focus, rotary shutter cocked by winding knob, released by pulling string. Plated finish no 6738. Sold by J. Robinson & Sons, 172 Regent Street London. C.P. Stirn.

Stirn waistcoat camera

Photographic Technology
Photographically illustrated book, 'The Poetical Works of Sir Walter Scott with Fine Illustrations'; blue leather binding with gilt decoration, full board, with albumen prints pasted in. One of 186 books illustrated with original photographs, covering the period 1854-1895.

'The Poetical Works of Sir Walter Scott with Fine Illustrations'

Photographs

1866
Book: `The Coming of the Fairies' by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. First edition, London: Hodder & Stoughton Ltd., 1922. Illustrated. Leather (?) bound.

The Coming of the Fairies

Printed Materials & Ephemera

1922
Portable reflex replica of Fox Talbot's Camera Obscura, original c 1800.

Replica of Fox Talbot's Camera Obscura, c1800

Photographic Technology

1795-1805 (original)
Enamelled hanging advertising sign. Blue enamelled metal 'All 'Kodak' Supplies' in white. Franco Signs, London, W1.

Enameled Kodak Hanging Advertising Sign

Printed Materials & Ephemera
A daguerreotype of Jabez Hogg and Mr Johnson, 1843; Jabez Hogg photographing Mr Johnson in Richard Beard's studio, c 1843. A daguerreotype from 1843 which is thought to be the first photograph showing a photographer at work. The image depicts Jabez Hogg photographing W S Johnson in the studio of Richard Beard.

Jabez Hogg photographing Mr Johnson in Richard Beard's studio, c 1843

Photographs

1840-1848
Carrier box for wet plates, with five large format wet collodion negatives, c 1855.

Carrier box for wet plates, c 1855

Photographic Technology

1850-1860
Levelling stand for daguerreotype toning/gilding. 130x95mm iron frame with plate supporting pins held horizontally on 150mm vertical rod fitted to round base with three levelling screws. With spirit lamp. Gilding process developed in 1840, improved appearance and stability of the daguerreotype.

Leveling stand for daguerreotype toning

Photographic Technology

1840-1855
Wooden daguerreotype developing box supported on sliding side panels, 200 x 135 x 240mm closed. Brown glass inspection window on side. Dished sheet iron bottom for mercury thermometer on front panel, bulb broken. Plate supports at approx 45 degrees, hinged door for front access. With glass spirit lamp. Box has a zinc plate holder with extracting rod for 10x12cm daguerreotype plates. It also has a zinc adaptor for 8x12cm and 7x12cm plates. The side of the box extends to from legs, providing a space for a spirit lamp.

Wooden daguerreotype developing box, c 1845

Photographic Technology

1840-1850
Calotype camera, wooden sliding body camera probably for paper negative materials with Ross lens, with two disc stops, achromatic c. F12 in rack and pinion focusing mount. On brass lens panel, sliding rising front. Extra extension on sliding body, hinged extension baseboard, with sliding bolt catches. Ground glass focusing screen in removable frame. Two double darkslides, with provision for glass to hold paper flat. Two double darkslides, with provision for glass to hold paper flat. Sliding box-type camera (most common in 1840s); Ross lens plate holders for half plate size (16.5 x 12cm).

Calotype camera, c 1850

Photographic Technology

1845-1855