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Liverpool Photographic Supply Company | Field Camera | Other | Half Plate

1875. Their skilfully inlaid label and their matching engraved lens, suggest that Liverpool Photographic Supply Company were the makers, as well as the retailers of this camera, and I am indexing them as makers, although they have no mention in Channing & Dunn's definitive "British Camera Makers", as either manufacturers or retailers and I have been unable to find any trace of them anywhere else. The camera's idiosyncratic design does not appear to have been influenced by McKellen's patents, which could date it at least prior to 1884, and it has some similar characteristics to my J.A.Furnivel camera of about a decade earlier, so I have assigned it the same date of 1875. Because I have never before encountered this company, and because the camera's brass furniture is of a unique type that I have never previously seen in forty-plus years of collecting, I believe..... (as presumably did the 23 people who underbid me when I bought it in an on-line auction).....that this is a very rare camera.

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