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Tailboard camera

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Tailboard camera
George Hare, London; quarter-plate, polished mahogany body, inset lacquered brass binding and fittings, the back standard with inset label G. HARE. MANUFACTURER, 26 CALTHORPE ST, LONDON, red-leather square-cut bellows, hinged focusing screen, with a Ross, London brass bound 4 x 3 Rapid Symmetrical lens no. 39685 with Waterhouse stops in leather case, a Taylor, Taylor & Hobson brass bound 6½ x 4¾ MAR lens no. 11078, viewing screen magnifier, one double darkslides and a G. Hare mahogany patent Automatic Changing Box, in a fitted leather case

拍品专文

Hare's Changing Box was patented on 7 May 1878 (British patent number 1699). Advertising stated: 'By means of this Apparatus a Sensitive Plate can be transferred from the Plate-box to the Camera with the greatest facility, and without the possibility of its being affected by light. Holding a dozen, or as many more Plates as may be desired, it is so arranged that any one of the collection may be removed, exposed in the Cameras, and transferred to its own place again with absolute certainty at the bottom, which is a light-tight slide.' The 5 x 4 inch model sold for £3 15s.