Date Introduced: June, 1889 ; Years Manufactured:  c. 1889
Construction: rear focus
Materials:
Sizes Offered: 5x8
Notes:

     The front shifts left and right as well as up and down; lens swivels in ball mount to retain coverage.

Camera Collecting/Jay Tepper story:
    I had an opportunity in about 1979 to buy one of these for $1200.  It was being sold by Jay Tepper of Stamford, CT, a camera dealer who was selling the collection of Harry Gross, the author of the first book on collecting antique photographica.  Harry Gross had gotten it from the estate of Simon Wing, and the camera was unused, with an uncut lens board.  I had to pass on it, being a poor graduate student at the time, but wanted a Samuel Peck wet plate studio camera from the same collection.  I told Jay that I was tapped out, and if I could start a layaway plan on the Peck.  He said fine, and then shipped the camera to me, not having received even the first payment.  How many dealers would have shipped a $2250 wet plate camera on spec.  What a trusting soul.  Jay retired about 2011 (other family members still deal in cameras), but Jay will always be tops with me because of his belief in the goodness of people.  The Peck camera is one that appeared in that book the Harry Gross wrote, and can be seen at this web page.

References: 
Anthony's Photographic Bulletin 20 for June 1889, E. & H.T. Anthony & Co. (New York, NY), June 11, 1889, p. 446 (Introduced as a new camera)
 

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