Hare Tailboard - Antique and Vintage Cameras

Improved Portable Bellows Camera

1878

G. Hare

London

England

Image of Improved Portable Bellows Camera

Lens:
f8, 14" Ross Symmetrical, marked 10 x 8. For Waterhouse stops. Serial no. 39524 (1886).

Shutter:
None.

Construction:
Spanish mahogany, dovetail joints, brass binding and fittings, black leather bellows with square corners.

Format:
10" x 8" plates.

Focusing:
Bellows. Double extension, rack and pinion (straight cut) to inner frame.

Movements:
Rise and cross front, tilting back.

With:
Eastman-Walker Roll-holder. Serial no. 5343. Part of case with P&O shipping label.

This is a very well-made and finished camera. It was sold for many years by Hare and others. Minor improvements and modifications were made over the years, particularly to the tilting back arrangement. Eventually made in sizes from 6 ½" x 8 ½" to 18" x 16" and in two versions - one of square section with a reversing back, the other of rectangular section where the whole camera is turned on its side for vertical subjects. Brass binding was extra. Plate holders were available for either wet or dry plates. This example probably dates to around 1890.

Hare gives the introduction date of the camera as 1878, the name was used for an earlier Hare camera but advertisements say that the 1878 model was a 'new arrangement'. The date may, in fact, be wrong as the 'new arrangement' is advertised in the BJA of 1877.

References & Notes:
Roll-film Holders. BP 15542/1884 (roll-holder). BJA 1877, p. li. BJA 1880, p. li. BJA 1884, p. li. BJA 1888, p. 37.


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