Sliding Box Camera (1/9 plate)

OBJECT TYPE: Camera
MANUFACTURER: Unidentified Maker
NATIONALITY: French
INTRODUCTION DATE: ca 1850
FILM TYPE: dag plate
IMAGE SIZE: 1/9 plate
FUNCTIONAL TYPE: daguerreotype
STANDARD LENSES/SHUTTERS: achromatic landscape

NOTES:
  Possibly the world's only surviving 1/9 plate camera. Outfit includes
  iodizing box which apparently was never used and a daylight plate
  loader and back for either daguerreotype or collidion dry plates.

OBJECT IDENTIFIER: 9999.00013