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Beautiful Butcher Royal Mail Stamp Camera WITH ORIGINAL BOX.
THIS IS A SCARCE- HISTORIC CAMERA
Butcher (W. Butcher & Sons), London, England.
It is the simplest type of multiplying camera, not much more than an elegant, beautifully polished, mahogany box with fifteen lenses. Inside the box, there is a spring mounted metal plate shutter and thin pieces of wood that separate the lenses.
Royal Mail Stamp Camera takes fifteen images on small 3-1/4\" x 4-1/4\" dry plates or film. The resulting 3/4\" x 7/8\" photographs were much smaller than Carte de Visites, \"Bon Tons\" and \"Gems.\" These cameras were very popular and over the years modified to take different lens combinations, and sensitized material. They were popular attractions at country fairs and traveling circuses and sideshows where couples and families would line up at the Stamp Camera stand to get their photos taken.The name Stamp Camera has little to do with the postal service. From the start, Stamp Cameras outfits included perforated printing-out-paper on which the 15 pictures were printed postage stamp size. These Stamp Cameras were so successful that the printing-out-paper for later versions produced stamp-like photos complete with perforations and gummed backs.
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