Half-plate size. Wadding covered in red plush mounted on a mahogany handle.

These were typically used prior to loading the plate in a dark-slide and before developing.

10" x 8" size. This comprises a shallow tray with loose wooden covers at the top and bottom, elastic strips held the covers in place. Paper label with Sands & Hunter name.

Construction:

Notes:

Eye-piece with elastic to fit around head, with arm holes and red fabric window.

Changing bags were for loading and unloading dark-slides and for fixing problems in magazines etc. The more elaborate models had an eye-piece to look into the bag and a red fabric window to let in filtered light. Beresford were specialists in this area.

Without window. Two examples.

Top left of illustration.

• Made of oak.
• Wooden for 12 plates. (Top right of illustration).
• Pine wood for 12 plates.

• Jaynay print wiper 6".
• Unnamed wiper 8".
• Jaynay print roller.
• Various unnamed rollers.

5" wide.

• Double ended top clip.
• Bottom clip with weight.

For 12, half-plates.

Construction:

Notes:

For 35 mm film strips with catalogue pages. Dated between 1937 and 1940.

For 100, 4" x 5" film negatives.

With:

For 2 ½" x 3 ½" and 2 ½" x 2 ½" film negatives.

With:

To store six strips of 35 mm film.

Film preservative, anti-static and cleaner for cine-film and negatives.

• Comparator No. 5267 Test Books.
• Universal Test Books.
• Blue Litmus Test Books.

Frosted bulb.

Colour printing filters. Set of yellow, magenta and cyan filters, with R-filter (light bulb colour correction). Box.