Lot Essay
A variant on this design by George Knight was sold in Photography 1839-1989, 9 November 1989, lot 47.
Details
BLAND & LONG, London
A Stereoscopic Tourist's outfit, comprising a 2¾ x 2¼ inch sliding-box camera with lacquered brass fittings, removable ground-glass focusing back and a brass-bound rack and pinion focusing lens, mahogany cantilever strips and mounting platform, screw adjustment, tripod mounting screw, three 6½ x 3¼ inch wet-collodion darkslides each with two half-size sheaths, all storing in a fitted mahogany box with inset label Bland & Long. Opticians to the Queen. 153 Fleet Street, London.
A Stereoscopic Tourist's outfit, comprising a 2¾ x 2¼ inch sliding-box camera with lacquered brass fittings, removable ground-glass focusing back and a brass-bound rack and pinion focusing lens, mahogany cantilever strips and mounting platform, screw adjustment, tripod mounting screw, three 6½ x 3¼ inch wet-collodion darkslides each with two half-size sheaths, all storing in a fitted mahogany box with inset label Bland & Long. Opticians to the Queen. 153 Fleet Street, London.
Literature
Latimer Clark, 'On an arrangement for taking stereoscopic pictures with a single camera' in Journal of the Photographic Society I(1854), 5, p. 57-60.
Brian Coe (1978), Cameras, p. 155-156.
R. C. Smith (1975), Antique Cameras, p. 61-63.
Brian Coe (1978), Cameras, p. 155-156.
R. C. Smith (1975), Antique Cameras, p. 61-63.
Further details
See illustration