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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