Date Introduced: - ; Years Manufactured: c.1873-1882
Construction: rear focus via push-pull with fine-focusing screw; single swing
Materials: mahogany body, cherry base, red leather bellows, brass and nickeled brass hardware
Sizes Offered: P=4¼x6½; Q=6½x8½; R=8x10; S=10x12; T=11x14; U=14x17; V=17x20
Notes: The photographed camera should have a fine focus screw (although it is missing), brass guides on bed sides; X=short focus, non-folding bed; Y=long focus folding bed (see View Camera Boxes P-W).  This model was primarily a wet-plate camera, and was discontinued in favor of lighter weight cameras a short time after dry plates became common.  The camera was advertised as weighing "only 22 pounds".  The hinged-lid compartment under the lens would have held small items, such as lens caps or Waterhouse stops, and is similar to the one on a Semmendinger Excelsior design of the same period.  The front standard still retains the twin thumbscrews present on the Kinear-type Success.  The handle on top of the 8x10 is a period alteration for convenience - that the top of the camera has not broken due to the handle being there is a testament to very solid wood of the period.  The nickeled swing hardware took a number of profiles over the years, slender (like these) or thicker, with curved edges (like the engraving).    This camera also features the centrally swinging rear standard patented by Nelson Wright Jan 23, 1866 (US52,239), at which time he was the partner of John Stock, early camera manufacturer (http://historiccamera.com/cgi-bin/librarium2/pm.cgi?action=app_display&app=datasheet&app_id=291 and http://historiccamera.com/cgi-bin/librarium2/pm.cgi?action=app_display&app=datasheet&app_id=837 ).

References:
Anthony's Photographic Bulletin Vol. 4, E. & H. T. Anthony & Co. (New York, NY), April 1873, p. 127
Illustrated Catalogue Issued Annually by Thos. H. McCollin,, Thos. H. McCollin (Philadelphia, PA), Jan 1, 1876, pp. 30-32
Photographic Apparatus, E. & H.T. Anthony & Co. (New York, NY), 1877, pp. 15-16
Anthony's Photographic Bulletin Vol. 9, No. 2, E. & H.T. Anthony & Co. (New York, NY), Feb 1878, ads p.01,06,inside back cover
Illustrated Catalogue of General Photographic Supplies, Thos. H. McCollin (Philadelphia, PA), 1882, pp. 21-22