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Plate dipping tanks

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Plate dipping tanks
two mahogany-body plate dipping tanks of similar design, both with 4½ inch-wide glass tank insert, mahoagny retaining bar and brass screw clamps and carrying handle and pivoting support legs, one with inset label W. W. ROUCH. MANUFACTURER. 180 STRAND. LONDON; a mahogany four whole-plate carrying box with brass retaining clip and handle (2)

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Tanks such as these were generally used for processing wet-collodion plates. These examples with their retaining screw tops were amongst the better quality models available from one of the better quality British makers. The air-tight seal allowed the tanks to be carried when full. Very similar tanks were still be advertised in the 1890s described as 'glass fixing baths...fitted with white German glass'.