Folding field camera

Folding field camera

Camera

Hermann-Josef Mackenstein

Maker
French, ca. 1880s–1890s

Folding field camera

1885
Wood, metal, leather, and glass
Overall (open): 5 7/8 × 7 × 7 1/16 in. (15 × 17.8 × 18 cm)
Paper (Cromer's note): 1 11/16 × 2 15/16 in. (4.3 × 7.5 cm)
Gift of Eastman Kodak Company, ex-collection Gabriel Cromer
1974.0037.1847
DescriptionSerial #14754 folding field camera for 9 x 12cm format, red leather bellows, and lens with rotary shutter, but no back.
Inscriptions Inscribed in pencil (Cromer's hand) on graph paper (see component) recto, C: Obj. simple à \ 3 lent.[lentilles] collées \ (Dallmeyer?)
Stamped in wood, lensboard left edge, C: BREVETÉ S.G.D.G. MACKENSTEIN
Stamped in wood, lensboard back edge, C: 14754

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