J. WAITE, Cheltenham

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J. WAITE, Cheltenham
An 8 x 4½ inch mahogany-body stereoscopic sliding box camera with removable focusing screen, pair of brass bound rack and pinion focusing lenses with brass lens caps, one element on each signed Derogy a Paris and one wet-plate single darkslide, twenty exposed wet-collodion negatives and five unexposed plates in a wood plate box; two chemical bottles each with impressed legend Waite Cheltenham, one with label Collodion. J. Waite, Dispensing Chemist, 1, Ormond Villas, Cheltenham and the other Iodizing solution. J. Waite, Dispensing Chemist, 1, Ormond Villas, Cheltenham.

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The exposed glass plates, both negatives and positives, show views in Cheltenham and Ilfracombe which suggest a date of the later 1850s. The camera is believed to have been owned by a Mr Adams of Betwys-Y-Coed, Wales. J. Waite operated a chemist business in Cheltenham from 1840-1870.

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