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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

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1925-1935
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

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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

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1893
A daguerreotype portrait camera with large compound lens, 1857-1860. Camera bears ivory plaque inscribed 'G Knight & Co. Philosophical instrument makers, 2 Foster Lane, London.' Lens inscribed 'No 8764 Voigtlander and Son, Wien and Braunschweig'.

Daguerreotype portrait camera

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1857-1860
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

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1895-1905
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

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1905-1915
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

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Stand camera for 1/2 plates; no lens; rack focusing on front and back; swing front (vertical), horizontal and vertical swing back. Sprung focusing screen; rack rising front. Black wood, satin chrome metal. With extension bed.

Kodak Specialist camera

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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

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1865
Folding stand camera for 4 3/4 x 6 1/2 inch plates. Fitted with a Lancaster 1/2 plate Patent Rectigraph lens f/10-50 and a rollerblind shutter 15/30/45/60/75/90/T. Rack and pinion focusing on front panel, screen operated double extension. Sliding rear panel. Rising and swing front and swing back. Reversible back with Lancaster's patent swing out ground glass screen. J. Lancaster.

The Lancaster Extra Special camera

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Folding stand camera for 10x12" plates; no lens, focusing screen. Rack focusing on front; sliding rising front. Integral tripod turntable. No 159.

Ross 10x12" stand camera

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The Sanderson hand camera, no. 3333. Folding hand and stand camera for 3 1/4 x 4 1/4 inch plates. Fitted with an Aldis anastigmat lens No.2 F: 5.75 inches f/6-45 No.106122. Bausch and Lomb Unicum shutter 1/2/5/25/50/100/T/B. Rack and pinion focusing, double extension. Sliding rising front, swing front. Drop baseboard, hinged flap on camera body to permit rise with wide angle lens. Reversible back, ground glass focusing screen. Brilliant reflecting finder on baseboard with rotating mask. Spirit level missing. G. Houghton.

Sanderson hand and stand plate camera

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Stand camera for 4 3/4 x 6 1/2 inch plates. Fitted with a rapid rectilinear lens f/8-64 c.F:9 inches. Sliding and rising front, rack and pinion focusing. Swing back, both movements. Ground glass focusing screen on swing out frame with reversible back. J. Lancaster, 1889.

The 1889 instantograph camera

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1889
Gandolfi Universal camera. Stand camera for pictures 3 x 4 inches, on 4 1/4 x 6 1/2 inch plates. Fitted with repeating back with ground glass and single dark slide. No lens. Front panel is pierced with centering hole. Rack and pinion focusing. Moving rear panel.

Gandolfi universal stand camera

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Stand camera built into leather case, for 4 3/4 x 6 1/2 inch plates. Lens and lens panel missing. No shutter. Sliding focusing. Swing back; focusing screen removes; shoe for viewfinder. With three bookform wooden double darkslides, stored with case. Resembles travelling case when closed.

Pullman Camera

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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

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1905-1915
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

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1900
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

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1930
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

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Folding stand camera for 4 3/4 x 6 1/2 inch plates. No lens. With triple extension, rack and pinion focusing on front and back. Sliding and rising front, swing front. Swing back, reversible back with swing out ground glass screen missing. Pendulum level. Tripod turntable. J. Lancaster and Son.

Lancaster half plate stand camera

Photographic Technology

1890
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

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1895-1897
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

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1901
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

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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.

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1900-1920
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

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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.

'The Triple Diamond' folding bellows field or stand camera

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Folding stand camera for 4 3/4 x 6 1/2 inch plates. Lens panel, (circular) missing. Rack and pinion focusing, double extension. Sliding rising front. Swing back. Reversible back. Swing out ground glass focusing screen. Front panel located by two screws and key slots. J. Lizars.

Lizars Challenge camera

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1896-1920
Dallmeyer portrait camera, for four exposures on one plate, 1866.

Dallmeyer Portrait Camera

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1866
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

Photographic Technology

1895
No. 6 Folding Kodak camera, improved model, 1893-5. Folding box/bellows camera for rollfilm or plates 6 1/2 x 8 1/2 inch. Fitted with a Bausch & Lomb Universal lens F:12 inches. US 4-256 interchangeable elements for W/A lens F:9 inches US 16 - 128. Bausch & Lomb iris diaphragm shutter 3/2/1/2/5/25/50/100/T. With pneumatic release valve. Lens and shutter have bayonet fitting. Sliding and rising cross front, drop-front and swing back. Lever focusing - two positions for converted lens. Rotating reflecting finder. Compartment under lid contains a spare lens elements, tripod screw and roll holder screw. Walker roll holder No.532. Overall (deployed): 290 mm x 300 mm x 470 mm.

No.6 folding Kodak, improved model

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1893-1895
Folding stand camera for 4 1/4 x 3 1/4 inch plates. Fitted with a Zeiss Tessar lens, F:15cm f/4.5-32. No 185676. With sliding rising front, rack and pinion focusing, double extension, reversible back with hinge-out ground glass. Vertical swing back with Sanger-Shepherd repeating back for colour photography fitted with red, green and blue filters with three plate holders 8 x 3 1/4 inches. With focusing screen.

Sanger-Shepherd camera

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Folding hand camera for 3 1.4 x 4 1.4 inch plates. Fitted with a Beck Neostigmat lens Series II No.4 f/6-32 No.153057. Bausch and Lomb unicum type shutter 1/2/5/25/50/100/B/T. Sliding rising front on lens panel and standard. Sandersons patent swing front. Drop baseboard. Rack and pinion focusing double extension. Rotating and reflecting finder and spirit level dry on double extension. Top of the camera body is hinged to permit rising front with wide angle lens. Reversible back with ground glass slide.

The Junior Sanderson folding hand camera

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1910
Folding stand plate camera. Wooden folding stand camera for 3 1/4 x 4 1/4 plates. Rapid rectilinear lens made by John Piggott, 117 Cheapside, London, No. 234. F5 1/2" Waterhouse stop slot. Sliding focusing. Repaired back, ground glass holder - homemade?

Folding stand plate camera

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1892
Folding stand camera 6 1/2 x 8 1/2 inch plates. Lens is missing. Fitted with a rollerblind shutter 15/30/45/60/75/90/T. Sliding rising and cross front. Screw focusing on rear panel. Vertical swing on back. Non reversible back, swing up ground glass screen. Square bellows, perished.

Folding camera for whole plates

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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

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c. 1896
Folding stand camera for 4 3/4 x 6 1/2 inch plates. Fitted with a Lancaster achromatic landscape lens f/10-30 F: c.8 inches. Sliding rising front, swing back. Rack and pinion focusing on front panel. Reversible back with Lancaster patent swing out ground glass, Sold by Bentfink and Co, on Cheapside, London.

Lancaster's Special Instantograph camera

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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

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1881-1891
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

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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

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1910
Folding stand camera for 4 3/4 x 6 1/2 inch plates. Lens and panel missing. Front, located by scews and keyhole slots. Rack and pinion focusing, double extension. Sliding rising front. Tapered bellows, square corners. Reversible back, swing out ground glass screen. Vertical swing back. Built in tripod turntable.

half plate stand camera

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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

Photographic Technology

1900
No makers name. Tailboard camera for 3 1/4 x 4 1/4" plates. Ross Goerz Patent Double Anastigmat lens F:6" f/7.7. Waterhouse stop slot No 261. Sliding focusing, back panel. No movements. Ground glass focusing screen hinged at top. Tailboard locked by sliding panel. Square bellows covered with dark grey cloth with gold foliage pattern.

Quarter-plate folding stand camera

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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

Photographic Technology

1900
London Stereoscopic Co. "Artist" twin-lens 1/4-plate camera, 1889. Inscription: 'LS Co Ltd, 106 & 108 Regents Street & 54 Cheapside'.

'Artist' Twin Lens Plate Camera

Photographic Technology

1889
Folding bellows tailboard field and stand camera for negatives 4 3/4 x 6 1/2. With square leather bellows, rising front and cross movement. Rack and pinion focusing. Fitted with a Rapid Rectilinear f/8 9.5" f.1 lens fitted to a Thornton PIckard roller blind shutter. Made of mahogany with brass fittings. Watson & Sons. c 1890.

Watson & Sons folding bellows tailboard field and stand camera, c 1890

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1885-1895
Gandolfi 'Universal' camera. Compur shutter, DRP No. 258646. Carl Zeiss, Jena, Tessar lens Serial No 04?586, F:1:4,.5 f=12cm. With three wooden bookform double darkslides (one fitted to camera).

Gandolfi 'Universal' Camera

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Folding stand plate camera. Quarter plate camera, folding bellows form. No lens. Rising front James Cole patent 53741894 - sliding flexible wooden panel; sliding cross front. Double extension bellows; rack and pinion focussing movement on rear panel. Fitted with Ross lens 1990-5036/0829. This camera incorporates a sliding flexible wooden panel fitted above and below the lens, thus giving a wide range of movement in bothe directions.

Folding stand plate camera

Photographic Technology

1897
Studio stand camera. Counter balanced camera platform with locking clamp and screw tilt. Metal and wood construction.

studio stand camera

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Folding stand camera for 4 3/4 x 6 1/2 inch plates. Fitted with an Aldis anastigmat lens No.7 f7.7-45 No.31838. Thornton Pickard time and Inst.roller blind shutter 15/30/45/75/90/T behind lens. Sliding rising front, on lens panel and supports. Sliding and cross front. Swing front and back. rack and pinion focusing on front and back, triple extension. Reversible back, hinged ground glass focusing screen. Built tripod turntable. Thornton Pickard.

Thornton-Pickard imperial triple extension camera

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Folding stand camera for 4 3/4 x 6 1/2 inch plates. Taylor, Taylor and Hobson Cooke lens series III eq. focus 7.3 inches f/6.5-45 No. 19715. With a Thornton-Pickard Time and Instantaneous shutter 15/25/40/60/80/T. Rack and pinion rising and cross front. Swing front and back. Rack and pinion focusing on front and rear panels. Double extension. T.P. pendulum level. Reversible back, swing out ground glass. Built in rotating tripod head. Thornton-Pickard

Thornton-Pickard Royal Ruby camera

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c. 1920