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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
EMPRESS Whole Plate Stand Camera

EMPRESS Whole Plate Stand Camera

Sanger-Shepherd Camera

Sanger-Shepherd Camera

Thornton-Pickard Royal Ruby Camera

Thornton-Pickard Royal Ruby Camera

circa 1920
McKellen Folding Hand or Stand Camera

McKellen Folding Hand or Stand Camera

circa 1890
Collapsible Folding Bellows Hand or Stand Camera

Collapsible Folding Bellows Hand or Stand Camera

circa 1910
Pullman Camera

Pullman Camera

Exhibition Camera by Sands and Hunter

Exhibition Camera by Sands and Hunter

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

Folding Camera for Whole Plates

Folding Camera for Whole Plates

Studio Stand Camera

Studio Stand Camera

Sliding Body Box Camera

Sliding Body Box Camera

1860
Kodak Studio Stand Camera

Kodak 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
Thornton Pickard Imperial Triple Extension Camera

Thornton Pickard Imperial Triple Extension Camera

Sanderson Folding Bellows Field or Stand Camera.

Sanderson Folding Bellows Field or Stand Camera.

1899-1909
Thornton Pickard 'College' folding bellows hand or stand camera, c 1910 with Case

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

1905-1915
Hare quarterplate stand camera

Hare quarterplate stand camera

Triple Victo Stand Camera

Triple Victo Stand Camera

Half Plate Stand Camera

Half Plate Stand Camera

Triple Diamond Folding Bellows Field or Stand Camera

Triple Diamond Folding Bellows Field or Stand Camera

The Una Camera

The Una Camera

The Sanderson Folding Bellows Field or Stand Camera

The Sanderson Folding Bellows Field or Stand Camera

c. 1903
'Artist' Twin Lens Plate Camera

'Artist' Twin Lens Plate Camera

1889
Watson & Sons Folding Bellows Tailboard Field and Stand Camera, c 1890

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

1885-1895
Sands, Hunter & Co Stand Camera

Sands, Hunter & Co 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 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. 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

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

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

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

1925-1935
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
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
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

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
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

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 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

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

'The Universal' Tail-board Camera

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
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
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
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
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