Simplex - Antique and Vintage Cameras

Simplex

1880s

Guillotine drop shutter. Elastic-band or gravity powered.

Mahogany with wooden blade. Catch for focusing position, button to release shutter blade. Front of lens fitting, 2 ⅜" opening.

Cubley & Preston later became J. Preston specialising in photographic chemicals.

BJA 1884, p. lxxxii.; YBP 1887, p. xvi.