Thornton-Pickard Manufacturing Co. Ltd. (Altrincham, Cheshire, U.K.)
Focal Plane Shutter - c. 1890
Dept. 5: Photographic
Lenses, Supplies, etc. 2nd ed.; Andrew
J. Lloyd & Co.
(Boston, MA), 1897, p. 35
4x5 Thorton-Pickard Focal Plane
Shutter installed on an E. & H.T. Anthony N.P.A.
another 4x5
Notes:
Thornton-Pickard shutters, even though made in the U.K., were sold in
the U.S.. Most T-P shutters seen are the type fitted to and pushed
onto the front of the lens. This one, though, is a back that
places a roller blind just in the focal plane (actually just in front of
the focal plane) of a camera. The spring back (the plate holder
sliding in and being held onto the back by the springs) suggests that
the camera was American, since most U.K. cameras of the time had
swing-away ground glass, and holders that slid into slots on the camera
back.
References:
The International Annual of Anthony's
Photographic Bulletin Vol. VII 1895,E.
& H.T. Anthony & Co. (New York, NY), 1894, ads p.
28
Descriptive Catalogue of Photographic Apparatus and Supplies, G.
Gennert (New York, NY), dated Jan. 1, 1895, p.34
Dept. 5: Photographic Lenses, Supplies,
etc. 2nd ed.; Andrew J. Lloyd
& Co. (Boston, MA), 1897,
p. 35
Department 5, Photographic Supplies, Lenses, etc., Andrew J. Lloyd
& Co. (Boston, MA), undated c.1898, p.38
Photography
has Made the Sun an Artist,
Andrew J. Lloyd (Boston, MA) catalog, 1899, p.68
Catalogue No. IIII of Professional and Amateur Photographer's
Supplies, Wm. F. Uhlman (St. Joseph, MO), c.1901, p. 23
