McKELLEN, Manchester

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McKELLEN, Manchester
A half-plate brass and mahogany field camera with a Perken, Son and Rayment Rapid Euryscope 7 x 5 lens and maker's plate McKellen, Manchester.

Literature

David A. Davies, 'The Manchester Camera Makers 1853-1940' in The Photographist No. 68/69 (Winter/Spring 1986), p. 17.

Lot Essay

McKellen's patents of 1884 for improvements to cameras were innovative and the design was widely copied. McKellen himself took his designs to Joshua Billcliff the establish Manchester camera maker who produced the camera to McKellen's design. McKellen was awarded the Photographic Society's first Prize Medal for his design.

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