Focal-Plane Folding Ruby tropical camera

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Focal-Plane Folding Ruby tropical camera
Thornton-Pickard Mfg. Co., Altrincham; quarter-plate, polished mahogany-body lacquered-brass binding strips and fittings, tan leather focusing screen cover, focal plate shutter with plate PAT. NO. 6283.12, black leather bellows and a Dallmeyer, London Stigmatic f/6 6.4 inch lens no. 137707 in a Unicum shutter and three tropical double darkslides, in a leather case

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The Focal-Plane Folding Ruby camera was introduced in 1909 using a Thornton-Pickard focal-plane shutter with three separate slits in the same blind. This model featured a focal-plane shutter which was the subject of a patent granted to the company on 13 March 1912. The camera was not apparently advertised after 1911, suggesting it was very short lived.

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