Daguerreotype camera with plate holder made by Alphonse Giroux, 1839. Daguerreotype camera with plate holder made by Alphonse Giroux 1839
A whole plate folding daguerreotype camera, by Charles Chevalier, with convertable lens system, part inscribed "Photographe a Verres combines invente par Charles Chevalier Ingenieur Optician Breuete Palais Royal 163 Paris" in fitted wood case; focussing screen, dark slide plate holder and iodine box with ground glass cover. Introduced 1840. Whole Plate Folding Daguerreotype Camera circa 1840
A daguerreotype portrait camera with large compound lens, 1857-1860. Camera bears ivory plaque inscribed 'G Knight & Co. Philosophical instrument makers, 2 Foster Lane, London.' Lens inscribed 'No 8764 Voigtlander and Son, Wien and Braunschweig'. Daguerreotype portrait camera 1857-1860
A whole plate folding daguerreotype camera, by Charles Chevalier. Introduced 1840. Whole Plate Folding Daguerreotype Camera circa 1840