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French Very Early Wet Plate Camera |1850-1860 | Tailboard | 9x12cm.

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ericevans2's items17 of 52Underwood, E.&T. | The "Exhibition". | Field camera. | 1887. |Bernoud, Alphonse.| 1850s.| French or Italian Early Wet Plate Tailboard camera.|
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    Posted 12 years ago

    ericevans2
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    French Very Early Wet Plate Camera |1850-1860 | Tailboard | 9x12cm.
    Catalogue No. 0134.
    A very early camera in walnut in the French style, from a time when well-to-do would-be photographers could get their estate cabinet maker or joiner to knock them up a one-off camera like this one. The bellows are of a type which can be fairly precisely dated, I am told by a French expert. The camera is deeply stained from the use of wet plate collodion. The lens, marked “A.Tardy, Lyon” is not original to the camera; updating equipment is not a modern idea. This camera was a find from a barn at La Roche-Chalais, in the area between Bordeaux and Perigueux, on the E-70, in France. The new science of Photography was a popular interest among the French aristocracy of the period, and it is reasonable to assume that this camera would not have been used by a farm labourer. Does any photo historian know if there were any famous or historic French photographers working in the La Roche-Chalais area in the 1850s?

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    1. ericevans2 ericevans2, 12 years ago
      Thank you BELLIN68! It is even older than I am, and a lot prettier!
    2. rniederman rniederman, 12 years ago
      Eric ... yes ... this is a very early bellows design.
    3. ericevans2 ericevans2, 12 years ago
      Thank you Rob. It seems to be a quite intricate "Cut and paste" method of construction, rather than the "Pleat and fold" method we have become accustomed to.
    4. ericevans2 ericevans2, 12 years ago
      Thank you Chrissylovescats!
    5. ericevans2 ericevans2, 12 years ago
      Thank you leighannrn!
    6. ericevans2 ericevans2, 12 years ago
      Thank you petey!
    7. ericevans2 ericevans2, 12 years ago
      Thank you Antigue Toys!
    8. ericevans2 ericevans2, 12 years ago
      Thank you officialfuel!
    9. ericevans2 ericevans2, 12 years ago
      Thank you Matty G!
    10. inky inky, 12 years ago
      Beautiful camera!...:-)
    11. ericevans2 ericevans2, 12 years ago
      Thanks to
      inky, trgrubaugh, egreeley1976, blunderbuss2 !
    12. ericevans2 ericevans2, 12 years ago
      Thank you designer!
    13. ericevans2 ericevans2, 12 years ago
      Thank you Phil!

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