This is a very well-made camera but with some odd details especially in the way the dark slides are constructed, possibly the camera was made by a cabinet maker working outside of the main camera manufacturing centres. The lenses date to around 1862, originally a simple pivoted shutter would have been fitted to each lens and linked by a brass rod.

The panels of the dark slides match the wood of the camera, the frames of the dark slides and the focusing screen are made of a much darker wood. The number of the slide is engraved on a brass disc. Rather than having a metal divider fitted with springs to separate the two glass plates, clips are fitted to the edge of the dark slides. A piece of card would have been used between the plates.