Transfer Boxes - Antique and Vintage Cameras

Hare Automatic Changing Box

1875

G. Hare

London

England

Image of Hare Automatic Changing Box

Box for 12, 10" x 8" plates

Construction:
Polished mahogany.

Serial Number:
670 .

Notes:
Address: 26 Calthorp St.

Although called a changing box this is a transfer box. It was quite popular and sold for many years. Most sizes up to 10" x 12" were advertised. A 10" x 8" box cost £5.5.0, brass binding was extra.

To load, a dark-slide it is slid into the brass fitting on top of the box, part way along the box is a stud which is pushed aside by the dark-slide, this opens the shutter in the box. The face of the dark-slide consists of a hinged panel, this is now released by a catch and springs back a short way which opens the shutter in the dark-slide. The glass plate is now free to fall into the dark-slide, the panel on the dark-slide is then pressed down which closes the shutter making the dark-slide light-tight. The top of the transfer box can be positioned by a tambour arrangement.

The changing box was shown at a London Photographic Society meeting in April 1875.

References & Notes:
Transfer Boxes. BP 1699/1875. BJA 1877, pp. li, 198. BJA 1890, p. 209. BJP 16/4/1875, p. 184.

Image of

Box for 6, 5" x 7 ½" plates

Notes:
Address: 26 Calthorp St.

Image of

Box for 12, 5" x 7 ½" plates

Notes:
Address: 1 Lower Calthorp St.

With:
Four hand-coated glass plates.

Image of

Box for 24, 5" x 7 ½" plates

Slide for 6 ½" x 8 ½" plates

Slide for 5" x 8" plates


Company Details:

Hare

Film and Plate holders

Dark-slides

Wet-plate

Double Dark-slides

Single Dark-slides

Studio & Process

Autochrome

Lippmann

Plate Reducers

Transfer Boxes

Hare

Lancaster

Frena

Changing Boxes

N&G

Adams

Reid's, Lizars, Pullman

Soho

Gaumont, Heidoscop, T-P, Ica
Ernemann

Film Pack Adapters

Envelope Adapters

Mackenzie-Wishart

Houghton

Daylight Loading System

A-kla

Roll-Holders

Kodak

Graflex, Adams, T-P

Zeiss, Adams

Rollex, Plaubel, N&G

MPP

Kodachrome Adapter

35 mm & Other Cassettes

Polaroid

Magazine Plate Holder

Plate / Film Adapter

Repeating Back

Leica Single Film Holder

Data Back

Frena