Bourquin camera

OBJECT TYPE: Camera
MANUFACTURER: Bourquin
NATIONALITY: French
OBJECT NAME VARIATION: ¼ plate box camera w/ dragons
PRODUCTION DATES: ca 1845
FILM TYPE: dag plate
IMAGE SIZE: 1/4 plate
FUNCTIONAL TYPE: daguerreotype
STANDARD LENSES/SHUTTERS: f/4 petzval type

NOTES:
  1/4 plate box camera with petzal type lens. Camera body made of
  mahogany, body tapers to lens. Focus by rack and pinion mechanism on
  lens only. Decorative brass dragons on either side of lens.

OBJECT IDENTIFIER: B777.00001

BIBLIOGRAPHIC REFERENCE: Auer, Michel & Tubbs, D.B. (translated & adapted). --The Illustrated History of the Camera from 1839 to the Present.-- Boston: New York Graphic Society, 1975. pp 49.//