Lens:

f8, Rapid Rectilinear 7 x 5 Black Band lens, Waterhouse stops. Serial no. 17056 .

Shutter:

None.

Construction:

Mahogany dovetail joints, cloth square cornered bellows.

Format:

6 ½" x 4 ¾" plates held in double dark-slides.

Focusing:

Bellows. Single extension, rack and pinion movement to rear standard.

Movements:

Rising front, cross front.

Notes:

Two of the slides have a serial no. of 1631. The camera and invoice have the address of 106 & 108 Regent St. and 54 Cheapside. The chemicals have various addresses of 106 , 108 & 110 Regent Street or 110 & 108 or 110.

With:

• 3 double dark-slides (1 - 6) with 'Hare' type catches. 3 quarter-plate reducers. One has a pencil inscription " Made by a Chinese carpenter, copied from my English one" and a date of 1892. The dark-slide to which this refers is clearly different to the other two slides.
• Lens cap. Lens box. 6 Waterhouse stops to f64. In pouch.
• Tripod screw. Dusting brush. Candle lamp.
• Box of plates by the Imperial Dry Plate Company. Box of quarter-plates by Britannia Works Company, speed 18. Japanned plate box with plates for storing negatives after exposure.
• Glass bottle containing "Concentrated Developer No. 1". Glass bottle containing "Concentrated Developer No. 2". Glass bottle containing "Chloride of Gold". Glass bottle containing "Acetate of Soda". Glass bottle containing fixer. 3 oz glass measure.
• A print from a LSC "Standard Negative", number 135. Invoice dated 18/July/1890 for £10.0.0. Inscription on back reads "Wedding present from her aunts ... Mrs Edward Sandford. Bought by A. Sandford Shrewsbury".
• Pine trunk with key. Some newspaper wrapping with dates of 1897.