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Thornton-Pickard Amber camera

circa 1897

Gandolfi 'Universal' Camera

Daguerreotype portrait camera

1857-1860

Folding Camera for Whole Plates

Pullman Camera

Studio Stand Camera

Thornton-Pickard Royal Ruby Camera

circa 1920

Large Half Plate Stand Camera

McKellen Folding Hand or Stand Camera

circa 1890

Kodak Studio Stand Camera

The 1889 Instantograph Camera

1889

EMPRESS Whole Plate Stand Camera

Collapsible Folding Bellows Hand or Stand Camera

circa 1910

'Artist' Twin Lens Plate Camera

1889

Thornton Pickard folding bellows field or stand camera, c 1890

1885-1895

Sanger-Shepherd Camera

Sands, Hunter & Co Stand Camera

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

1885-1895

Hand and Stand Camera and One Darkslide.

1895

Exhibition Camera by Sands and Hunter

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 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 15x12" plates; no lens; rising front; screw focusing on front panel; rear handle; reversible back, broken glass missing, painted white.

Turner folding stand camera

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 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. With Eastman roll-holder (Pat. May 5th 1885), No. 7520 and two double darkslides. Tripod base (no legs), in canvas and board case.

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

J Lancaster & Son camera for 10"x12" plates. No movements. Fixed front panel, sliding screen/plate holder. Square bellows. 2'6" extension. With one wooden single darkslide. No lens. Retailed by Benetfink & Co, Cheapside London E.C. Overall: 405 mm x 322 mm x 790 mm.

Lancaster stand plate camera

1852-1861
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. 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

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
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 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

Stand camera for 3 1/4 x 4 1/4 inch plates. Fitted with a rapid rectilinear lens F: 5 1/2 inches with three Waterhouse stops (US 4, 8, 64) by Optimus. Sliding rising front. Reversible back with ground glass focusing screen. Rack and pinion focusing with double extension. Swing back, vertical only. No. 3855. London Stereoscopic and Photographic Co, 1889.

London Stereoscopic and Photographic Co Quarter Plate Stand Camera

1889
Folding stand camera for 6 3/4 x 3 1/4 inch plates. Fitted with two lancaster rectigraph lenses f/7-40 in Primus lens protector bags. Rack and pinion focusing. Sliding rising front. Swing back. Lancaster patent swing out focusing screen. J. Lancaster c.1890

Lancaster Stereo Instantograph camera

1885-1895
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
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
Folding stand camera for 4 3/4 x 6 1/2 inch quarter plates. Fitted with a Ross Goerz double anastigmat lens F:8 1/4 inches f/8.-64. Sliding rising front, rack and pinion focusing. Double extension bellows rotatable back, hinged ground glass focusing screen. Lens number 4970. J T Chapman Limited. 1895-1900.

The British Box Plate Stand camera

1905
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
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
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

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 6 3/4 x 3 1/4 inch plates, tailgate type. Fitted with 2894 when received. No lenses. Rack and pinion focusing on the rear panel. Sliding rising front. Swing back. Swing up ground glass focusing screen. Cloth septum. G. Hare.

Hare stereoscopic camera

Stand camera for 1/2 plates; vertical swing front; horizontal and vertical swing back; rack focusing on front and back; rack rising front; sprung focusing screen; red wood, gilt metalwork. Fitted with 1990-5036/4858.

Kodak View camera

Folding stand camera for 4 3/4 x 6 1/2 inch plates. Fitted with a Ross Goerz double anastigmat lens F:8 1/4 inches f/7.7-64 No 353. Fitted with a Thornton Pickard Time and Inst. shutter 15/25/40/60/80/T. Fixed rear panel, sliding front panel. sliding rising and cross front, rack and pinion focusing, hinged down focusing screen. Double extension bellows rotatable back, hinged ground glass focusing screen. Thornton's patent pendulum level. G Hare.

Hare Half Plate Stand camera

1890
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

1892
Houghtons Ltd, London. Folding stand camera for 6 1/2 x 8 1/2 inch plates. Ross Goerz patent Double Anastigmat lens F:9 1/2 inches, f/7.7-64, No 5418, and Taylor, Taylor and Hobson wide angle rectilinear lens F:5.3, f/16-64, No 15474. Thornton Pickard rollerblind shutter Time and Inst. -15/30/45/60/75/T. Rack and pinion focusing on front and back, double extension. Sliding rising and cross front. Twoway swing back. Sanderson patent double strut swing front. Reversible back, ground glass focusing screen on hinged frame. Pendulum level. Chamfered bellows No 17482. With two bookform double wooden dark slides, and focusing cloth.

Wholeplate Sanderson Camera Regular Model

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

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
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
Stand camera; all metal; 4.75x6.5 inch plates; no lens; triple lens turret; integral shutter 1-1/50 sec.; all swing and rise movements on front and back; double rail base.

Trixale stand camera