French sliding box camera (½ plate)

OBJECT TYPE: Camera
MANUFACTURER: Unidentified Maker (French)
NATIONALITY: French
PLACE MANUFACTURED: France, Paris (attrib)
INTRODUCTION DATE: ca. 1850
FILM TYPE: dag/wet plate
IMAGE SIZE: half plate
FUNCTIONAL TYPES:
  daguerreotype
  wet plate
STANDARD LENSES/SHUTTERS: Darlot portrait lens

NOTES:
  Polished mahogany sliding box camera with Darlot lens. Type of camera
  commonly used for daguerreotypes, but back has silver nitrate stains,
  so also used with wet plate process.

OBJECT IDENTIFIER: 99991.00004