Lot Essay
The 1½ x 3½ inch back is laterally and vertically adjustable giving strips of two 1½ x 1½ inch negatives.
Details
BILLCLIFF, Manchester
A wood-body studio camera outfit with lacquered-brass fittings, the baseboard stamped Billcliff. Cameramaker, Manchester, a brass bound and other lenses, a 2 x 4½ inch repeating back, a 2 x 3½ inch repeating back, a 5½ x 3½ inch repeating back 2¾ x 3¾ inch repeating back, a 1½ x 3½ inch repeating back, a 1¼ x 4¾ inch repeating back; and associated darkslides.
A wood-body studio camera outfit with lacquered-brass fittings, the baseboard stamped Billcliff. Cameramaker, Manchester, a brass bound and other lenses, a 2 x 4½ inch repeating back, a 2 x 3½ inch repeating back, a 5½ x 3½ inch repeating back 2¾ x 3¾ inch repeating back, a 1½ x 3½ inch repeating back, a 1¼ x 4¾ inch repeating back; and associated darkslides.
Literature
David A. Davies 'The Manchester Camera Makers 1853-1940' in The Photographist No. 68/69 (Winter/Spring 1986), p. 11.
Further details
See illustration