Illustrated Catalogue of General Photographic Supplies, Thos.
H. McCollin (Philadelphia, PA), 1882, p. 31-32
Date Introduced: - ;
Years Manufactured: c.1882
- c.1885
Construction: back focus; 0/1 swing;
reversing ?; no or three-piece lens board; no gears
Materials: ebonized (painted white wood) or
mahogany body; black rubber bellows; brass hardware
Sizes Offered: see below
Notes:
McCollin's cameras are not identified in the catalog as being made by Scovill, as per the common practice of the day, but used a common Scovill engraving. American Optical/Scovill also used similar numbers for camera models, and these numbers are probably Scovill's designations rather than McCollin.
The descriptions for cameras in this model series seem to be a mish-mash of dissimilar models and finishes - some folding, some rigid, some mahogany, some painted. In this unusual aspect, the Scovill New Tourist Amateur appears to be identical to the descriptions for the American Optical Amateur Equipment (#1-8). For photos of a camera that may be one of them, See the American Optical Amateur Equipment (#1-8) model.
By 1885, this model may have been replaced by the similar Favorite.
References:
Illustrated Catalogue of General Photographic
Supplies, Thos. H. McCollin (Philadelphia,
PA), 1882, p. 31-32 offers (as New Tourists' Photographic
Amateur Outfit): #610=4x5 rigid bed; #612=5x8 rigid bed; #618=5x8
stereo or single rigid bed; #626=4x4 mahogany folding bed rising front;
#627= 4x5 mahogany folding bed rising front; #631=4.25x6.5 ebonized;
#641=5x8 stereo or single mahogany.
American Journal of Photography 1884-1885,
(as Amateur Photographic Outfits) offers #'s 610, 612, 618, as
above, but also: #625=4x5 mahogany rising front folding bed;
#630=6.5x8.5 ebonized folding bed w/ focus screw; #633=8x10 ebonized
folding bed w/ focus screw; and #635=5x8 mahogany stereo folding bed w/
extra lens board for single
not in the 1886 American Journal of Photography.
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