Beck Tailboard - Antique and Vintage Cameras

Tailboard Camera

c.1890

R & J Beck

London

England

Image of Tailboard Camera

Lens:
f8, 9" Beck Rapid Rectilinear. Iris diaphragm to f64. Scaled in f numbers and US 4 - 256. Serial no. 4333 .

Shutter:
Newman Patent, spring powered, pneumatic control. Speeded 1 - 1/100, T setting by short pressure on release. Serial no. 3262.

Construction:
Spanish mahogany, dovetail joints, brass binding and fittings. Leather square cornered bellows.

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

Focusing:
Bellows to 4 ½ feet. Single extension. Rear standard moved by rack and pinion (straight cut).

Movements:
Rising front, cross front. Tilting back with limited swing.

Serial Number:
362 .

With:
2 double dark-slides.

A very well made tailboard camera, heavily brass bound for tropical use. The workmanship and finish is typical of the London makers of the time.

Beck advertised the Newman shutter around this period.

References & Notes:
BP 7156/1886 (shutter). BJA 1892, p. 241.; YBP 1891, p. lvii.

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