[W&B] More about Ground glass screens.

[Marcel Safier]

Milan, Eric
 
I also have the 5th on the bottom row and got it with an English full
plate camera. I have seen a similar "plain" one on a dealers stand at a
fair. I picked it up and the dealer said he didn't know what the fine
TTH initials around the rim stood for. I said probably Taylor Taylor &
Hobson and before we could even discuss price he took it from my hands
and refused to sell it. Funnily he died about a year after that. Maybe
he used it to read the fine print on his will or had it buried with his
corpse?
 
Cheers!

Marcel
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Marcel Safier (Photographic Historian)
PO Box 239
Holland Park 4121
Queensland Australia
http://members.ozemail.com.au/~msafier/index.html 
 
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From: woodandbrass-bounces at kjsl.com
[mailto:woodandbrass-bounces at kjsl.com] On Behalf Of Eric Evans
Sent: 14 March 2008 05:23
To: Collectors of 19th Century Cameras &Photographica
Subject: Re: [W&B] More about Ground glass screens.
 
Milan,
              Bottom row, numbers five and six, I have one of each.
Probably English? 
    I'm finding that shows, or fairs as we call them, are now having so
very little in the W&B genre that I don't bother going any more, but
yes, the larger plate sizes always were the rarest. Same on e bay:
quarter plate downwards, no problem; half-plate and upwards, zilch.
Mind, if you score one packet, that's twelve backless cameras to collect
before you've used them all for screens.
    Sorry about the "tailback" of previous on this, I don't know how to
stop it..
Eric.
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