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French full plate sliding box camera

OBJECT TYPE: Camera
MANUFACTURER: Unidentified Maker
NATIONALITY: French
INTRODUCTION DATE: ca 1840s
FILM TYPE: dag plate
IMAGE SIZE: full plate
FUNCTIONAL TYPE: daguerreotype
STANDARD LENSES/SHUTTERS: Soleil Fils Optician achromatic landscape
INTEGRATED SHUTTER: Yes

NOTES:
  Mahogany bodied sliding box camera similar to the Giroux except it
  does not have a base board. Soleil Optician lens with pivoting cap
  shutter.

OBJECT IDENTIFIER: 9999.00009

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French full plate sliding box camera

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