New Patent Portable - Antique and Vintage Cameras

New Patent Portable

c. 1886

W.F. Stanley

London

England

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Construction:
Polished mahogany, finger joints, with brass binding. Mauve square cornered, tapered leather bellows.

Format:
6 ½" x 8 ½" plates held in double dark-slides.

Focusing:
Bellows. Triple extension, rack and pinion movement to inner frame. Outer frame operates by pulling out two brass rails each side of the bed.

Attributes:
Reversing back. Turntable in base. Removable lens panel.

Movements:
Rising front, swing back, tilting back.

Serial Number:
856 .

Notes:
Address on plaque: Stanley's Patent. Railway Approach London Bridge. 856. The Stanley name and serial number are stamped on the bottom of the dark-slides.

With:
3 double dark-slides.

Stanley's patent of 1886 covered the fitting of the front standard to the baseboard by pins. The rear standard is fixed to two brass rails which slide out from the baseboard to give triple extension without the bulk of an outer wooden frame. The rear standard is fixed to the rails by two trunnions, the standard can swivel on the trunnions to give a swing back movement. The fixing of the front standard is not very rigid as the pins, although tapered, have too much play in the sockets.

References & Notes:
BP 2811/1886. BJA 1888, p. 147. BJA 1890, p. 103. PA 1891, p. cxxi. YBP 1888, p. lxiii.

Further Information:
A similar camera with the same front standard was sold by Sands, Hunter & Co.


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