John Price – Page 11 – Museum of Everyday Life

D21_001785 Folding Coronet Camera

Item Reference: 001785
Category: Photography
Format: Camera
Description: A compact, folding billowed camera designed by The Coronet Camera Co. Birmingham
Date: 1930s
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D21_001791 3x Camera Cases

Item Reference: 001791
Category: Photography
Format: Artefact
Description: Three empty camera cases. One brown leather with lockable catch, one brown leather with press-stud catch, one brown canvas with press-stud catch
Date: c1940s
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D21_001792 Souvenir China Camera

Item Reference: 001792
Category: Photography
Format: Artefact
Description: Souvenir made of china in the shape of a billowed camera. Bears the coat of arms and title ‘Paignton’, a coastal town in Devon.
Date: c. 1910s
Further Information: As of 1947, this variation is no longer Paignton’s coat of arms, though it was in use from at least 1905. Other identical sculptures exist, though with different crests (such as Skegness), suggesting the were mass-produced trinkets. Potentially, it was produced by Keele Street, in North Staffordshire, which became known for creating crested porcelain and china upon the outbreak of the First World War.
Links: A look into Keele Street .

D21_001793 Darkroom Photo Cutter

Item Reference: 001793
Category: Photography
Format: Artefact
Description: Wooden guillotine for measuring and cutting photographs in a darkroom. Features a partially destroyed emblem for The Adhesive Dry Mounting Company Limited. Potentially their patented ‘Trimmerrett’.
Date: c. 1940s
Further Information: The obscured location on the emblem is Stamford Street, SE1, a street in south London (Lambeth/Southwark). Interestingly, Adhesive Dry Mounting Co. Ltd. first registered their company as operating from 27-28 Fetter Lane EC4, in Farringdon, in 1903. It was the Fetter Lane address that was represented on their products until at least the 1930s.
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