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Thornton-Pickard Amber camera

Thornton-Pickard Amber camera

circa 1897
Gandolfi 'Universal' Camera

Gandolfi 'Universal' Camera

Daguerreotype portrait camera

Daguerreotype portrait camera

1857-1860
The 1889 Instantograph Camera

The 1889 Instantograph Camera

1889
Sands, Hunter & Co Stand Camera

Sands, Hunter & Co Stand Camera

Sanger-Shepherd Camera

Sanger-Shepherd Camera

EMPRESS Whole Plate Stand Camera

EMPRESS Whole Plate Stand Camera

McKellen Folding Hand or Stand Camera

McKellen Folding Hand or Stand Camera

circa 1890
Thornton-Pickard Royal Ruby Camera

Thornton-Pickard Royal Ruby Camera

circa 1920
Watson & Sons Folding Bellows Tailboard Field and Stand Camera, c 1890

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

1885-1895
Collapsible Folding Bellows Hand or Stand Camera

Collapsible Folding Bellows Hand or Stand Camera

circa 1910
Exhibition Camera by Sands and Hunter

Exhibition Camera by Sands and Hunter

Pullman Camera

Pullman Camera

Hand and Stand Camera and One Darkslide.

Hand and Stand Camera and One Darkslide.

1895
Large Half Plate Stand Camera

Large Half Plate Stand Camera

Sliding Body Box Camera

Sliding Body Box Camera

1860
Studio Stand Camera

Studio Stand Camera

Thornton Pickard folding bellows field or stand camera, c 1890

Thornton Pickard folding bellows field or stand camera, c 1890

1885-1895
Folding Camera for Whole Plates

Folding Camera for Whole Plates

Kodak Studio Stand Camera

Kodak Studio Stand Camera

'Artist' Twin Lens Plate Camera

'Artist' Twin Lens Plate Camera

1889
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
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
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
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. 1 wooden double darkslide.

1894 Instantograph camera

1890-1900
Folding stand camera for 4 3/4 x 6 1/2 inch plates. Fitted with a Beck symmetrical lens F: 8 1/2 inches f/8-64. Unicum shutter 1/2/5/25/50/100/T/B. Sliding rising and cross front. Swing front. Rack and pinion focusing, triple extension. Revolving back, swing back. Tripod turntable in baseboard. W. Butcher and Sons. c.1910.

The National camera

1905-1915
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

Folding stand camera for 3 1/4 x 4 1/4 inch plates. Fitted with an Aldis anastigmat lens No.2 f/6-45 No. 40668. 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

The Triple Diamond folding bellows field or stand camera for plates 4 3/4 x 6 1/2. With triple extension, rising and tilting front, reversing and swing back movement. Lens panel hinged to baseboard. Fitted with a rapid rectilinear lens F.8 8 f.1. mounted in a Thornton Pickard roller blind shutter. Of mahogany with brass fittings and tapered leather bellows.

Triple Diamond Folding Bellows Field or Stand Camera

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

Sinclair Una camera. James A Sinclair, 54 Haymarket, London SW. Folding hand/stand camera for 3 1/4 x 4 1/4" plates. Ross Xpres lens F:5 1/2" f4.5, No 110093. Wheelset Compur shutter 1-1/200 sec. Rack and pinion focusing; double extension; rising swing front. Refelcting finder on baseboard. Rotating back. In fitted case with film pack adapter, six wooden blockform double darkslides, folding metal frame finder (lazy-tong type), Sinclair bellows-type lens hood.

Sinclair Una camera. James A Sinclair

1900-1920
Morley wet-plate folding camera. Tailboard type folding camera for wholeplates. Manufactured by W Morley, 70 Upper Street, Islington, London N. Tailboard type folding camera for wholeplates 8 1/2 x 6 1/2 inches. Petzval type lens; waterhouse stops. Top loading; removable focusing screen; plate holder, largely not original. Rising front; square bellows; side wing strut. Bone inlay reads: 'W. Morley, London'. Overall (deployed approx.): 300 mm x 290 mm x 540 mm.

Morley wet-plate folding stand camera

1865
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
Square bellows, tailboard camera 'The Universal' for half-plates Made by Gandolfi, London. With spirit level. No lens assembly.

'The Universal' Tail-board Camera

No 5 folding Kodak camera, 1893-1897, manufactured by Eastman Kodak Co. Folding camera for 54 exposure roll film 5 x 7 inch. Bausch & Lomb universal lens. US 4-256, Bausch & Lomb iris diaphragm shutter 3/2/1/2/5/25/50/100. Sliding rising and cross front, rack and pinion focusing, drop front to baseboard, swing back vertical and horizontal movement, reflecting viewfinder, compartment in case for interchangeable elements (missing). Walker roll holder. No 9498. Overall (deployed): 240 mm x 256 mm x 390 mm. This is an early folding camera designed for use with rollfilm. Externally, it resembles a leather-covered box. The front panel opens down to reveal the lens panel - connected by bellows to a modified Eastman- Walker rollholder.

No 5 folding Kodak camera

1893-1897
The Sanderson folding bellows field or stand camera for plates 4 3/4 x 6 1/2 and one darkslide. With double extension, tapered leather bellows, double swing and reversing back. Focusing by two rack and pinion mechanisms. Fitted with a Beck Steinheil 'Unofocal' patent Series 1 F.6.6 7.2" f.1 mounted in a Thornton Pickard roller-blind shutter. Polished teak with brass fittings. Houghton Ltd, c.1904.

Sanderson Folding Bellows Field or Stand Camera and Darkslide.

1899-1909
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
Franks half-plate camera, made by A Franks, optician, Manchester, Hull and Liverpool. Folding stand camera for 4 3/4 x 6 1/2". No lens; flange 1 3/4" on panel. Rack and pinion focussing, sliding rising front. Swing back. Double extension bellows. With two double wooden bookform plateholders. No lens.

Franks' Half-plate camera

1895
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
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. With two

Lancaster 1889 Extra Special camera

1884-1894
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.

No. 5 Cartridge Kodak camera, 1898-1900, manufactured by EKCo. Folding camera for 115 rollfilm. Fitted with a Bausch and Lomb rapid rectilinear lens US4-128. Eastman triple action shutter B/I/T, slow to fast adjustment. Rack and pinion focusing, sliding rising and cross front. Two reflecting finders. With interchangeable plate back No.533 adaptor. Blockform double darkslide and a standard back No.1288. Eastman Kodak. Overall (deployed): 220 mm x 260 mm x 295 mm.

No 5 Cartridge Kodak camera

1898-1900
No 5 Folding Kodet camera, 1895-1897, manufactured by Eastman Kodak Co. Folding camera for 5 x 7 plates or roll film. Fitted with an achromatic lens, rotating disc with four apertures, built in Kodet shutter, adjustable slow to fast I/T. Sliding focus, sliding rising and cross front, rotating reflecting finder on the baseboard with Eastman roll holder for 7 inch rollfilm, with exposure counter No 534. With ground glass screen, camera no 592. Overall (deployed): 190 mm x 230 mm x 344 mm.

Kodak No 5 Folding Kodet camera

1895-1897
Sandham stand camera, made by Sandham and Co., 92 Northgate, Blackburn. Folding hand/stand camera for 4 3/4 x 6" plates. With "R.R. No.2" lens F.8 1/2", f.3-64 and RR type F.9" f.8-64. Sliding rising front with click stops. Swing front end and back. Pendulum level. Rack and pinion focussing, double extension. For shutter see 1990-5036/1269

Sandham stand camera

1900
Folding stand camera for 4 3/4 x 6 1/2 inch plates. Fitted with a rapid rectilinear lens by Henry Crouch, 66 Barbican, London. F:10 inches with six Waterhouse stops, in case with lens cap and chamois bag Serial No153. Sliding rising and cross front. Rack and pinion focusing with extra extension by sliding front panel out on extension baseboard. Focusing acts on rear panel. Ground glass focusing screen in hinged frame, vertical swing back. Provision for stereo divider, septum missing Square bellows. Meagher.

Meagher half-plate stand camera

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
The Junior Sanderson folding hand camera and a darkslide, manufactured by George Houghton and Son, London, 1910

The Junior Sanderson folding hand camera and a darkslide

1910
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
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