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Thornton-Pickard Amber camera

Photographic Technology

c 1897
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

Photographic Technology
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

Photographic Technology

1893

Gandolfi 'Universal' Camera

Photographic Technology
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

Photographic Technology

1857-1860
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

Photographic Technology

1905-1915
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

Photographic Technology

1895-1905
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

Photographic Technology
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

Photographic Technology

1925-1935
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

Photographic Technology
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

Photographic Technology

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

Photographic Technology
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

Photographic Technology
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

Photographic Technology

c. 1896
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

Photographic Technology
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

Photographic Technology

1881-1891
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

Photographic Technology
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

Photographic Technology

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

Photographic Technology
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
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

Photographic Technology
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

Photographic Technology

1930
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

Photographic Technology
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
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

Photographic Technology
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

Photographic Technology

1885-1895
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

Photographic Technology

1885
Large studio stand camera, 7 1/2 feet high. Counterbalanced camera platform. Rack and pinion elevation and screw tilt. 3 castor base and locking pin. Kodak Limited.

Kodak studio stand camera

Photographic Technology
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

Photographic Technology
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

Photographic Technology
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

Photographic Technology

c. 1920
Studio stand camera. Counter balanced camera platform with locking clamp and screw tilt. Metal and wood construction.

studio stand camera

Photographic Technology
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
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.

Lancaster 1889 Extra Special camera

Photographic Technology

1884-1894
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.

1894 Instantograph camera

Photographic Technology

1894
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

Photographic Technology

1889
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
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

Photographic Technology

1890-1900
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

Photographic Technology

1901
hand and stand camera 6 1/2 x 4 3/4. With folding bellows with hinged base and double bellows entension. Fitted with a symmetrical lens with iris diaphragm. With opening of F.8 and focal length of approx 8.5". Of french manufacture. Of mahogany with brass fittings. 1895

hand and stand camera

Photographic Technology

1895
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

Photographic Technology

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

Photographic Technology

1895-1897
Folding stand camera for 3 1/4 x 4 1/4 inch plates. Fitted with The King lens, Achromat, f/11-32. Rollerblind shutter behind the lens. No maker's name. 15/30/45/75/90/B. Sliding rising front. Lens standard located by pins in key slots on baseboard. Rack and pinion focusing, double extension. Vertical swing back. Ground glass focusing screen in hinged frame, reversible back. Tripod built in.

Quarter-plate Stand Camera

Photographic Technology

1910
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

Photographic Technology
Stand camera for 3 1/4 x 4 1/4 inch plates. Fitted with a Watson F:4 inches revolving disc with four stops (wide angle lens for 4 3/4 x 6 1/2 inch camera ); a Watson F: 6 1/2 inches f/8-44 No.823 (for 5 x4); a Ross anastigmat F: 135mm 5 3/8 inches f/8-64, No. 4288 Zeiss Patent; a Watson F:11 inch rapid rectilinear f/8-64 No.4042( for 8 1/2 x 6 1/2 inches); A Dallmeyer telephoto attachment 2 1/2 inch focus, rack and pinion extension. With focusing screen magnifier. Rack and pinion focusing, double extension. Sliding rising front. Swing back. Reversible back with swing out focusing screen. Ball level. No. 9807. W Watson and Sons.

Watson quarterplate stand camera outfit

Photographic Technology

1900
Folding stand camera for 6 1/2 x 8 1/2 inch plates. Fitted with a R & J Beck biplanat lens No 6 F 1 inches. F:5.8-64 No121514. Sliding rising front, backwards swing. Swing back. Rack and pinion focusing, triple extension on front and back. Reversible back, hanged focusing screen. Pendulum level. Built in tripod turntable, No 18924. Houghtons Limited.

triple victo stand camera

Photographic Technology
Folding camera for 4 x 5 inch plates. Lens missing. Sliding rising front on lens panel and front panel. Swing front with patent catches. Drop front. Top of case raises to permit extreme rise with wide angle lens. Rack and pinion double extension focusing. Brilliant reflecting finder with rotating mask on baseboard. Reversible back. Ground glass focusing screen. No.15888. Houghtons Limited

The Junior Sanderson hand and stand camera

Photographic Technology

1905
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.

Photographic Technology

1900-1920
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

Photographic Technology

1910