Daguerreotype camera

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Daguerreotype camera
Knight, London; mahogany-body, the top with two hinged opening doors and inset plate KNIGHT. FOSTER LANE. LONDON and a brass bound lens

Literature

Channing & Dunn (1995), British Camera Makers, p. 64.
R. C. Smith (1975), Antique Cameras.

Special notice

VAT rate of 5% is payable on hammer price plus buyer's premium

Further details

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Lot Essay

George Knight was established as an optician and became one of the earliest photographic dealers in Britain, introducing a range daguerreotype and calotype cameras from the early 1840s. The business of George Knight was taken over by James How in 1864.

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