Scovill Mfg. Co.
Albion Variation 1
Scovill Catalog, 1889, p. 22-25
6½ x 8½
Date Introduced: - ; Years
Manufactured: c.1886-1897
Construction: telescoping bed focus
via rack and pinion (gear tracks hidden); single front and double back
swing; reversing by removable back
Materials: mahogany body; mahogany bed; black fabric bellows;
brass hardware
Sizes Offered: #550=4¼x6½; #551=5x7; #552=5x8;
#553=6½x8½; #554=8x10
Notes: an "English Compact" style of camera - hence
the name Albion; high end camera for Scovill.
Albion Variation
2 has full length brass hardware on the side of the base. Inasmuch
as the above camera is marked Scovill Mfg. Co. and one of the
Variation 2 cameras is marked Scovill & Adams Co. (the successor to
Scovill Mfg. Co.), Variation 2 may represent a later version than
Variation 1. In the 1886 Queen catalog reference, a 4¼x5½" size is
offered without lens on pages 84-85, and with a lens for bicycle use on page 77
as The Wheelman's Perfection Photographic Outfit.
References:
Catalog P, Photographic Material, J. W. Queen & Co. (Philadelphia, PA), 1886, pp.
80-85 (as The Queen Camera)
How to Make Photographs and Descriptive Price List,
Scovill Mfg. Co. (New York, NY), distributed by
C.H. Codman & Co. (Boston, MA), September 1888, p.
23-26
How to Make Photographs and Descriptive Price List,
Scovill Mfg. Co. (New York, NY), distributed by Buchanan, Bromley & Co. (Philadelphia, PA) Catalog, 1888
How to Make Photographs and Descriptive Price List,
The Scovill & Adams Co.
(New York, NY), January 1889, pp. 22-25
How to Make Photographs and Descriptive Price List,
The Scovill & Adams Co. (New York, NY), distributed by Buchanan, Bromley & Co. (Philadelphia, PA) Catalog, 1889
American Annual of Photography and Photographic Times Almanac for 1890,
The Scovill & Adams Co. (New York, NY), p. 104
How to Make Photographs and Descriptive Price List, The Scovill
& Adams
Co. (New York, NY), distributed by Horgan, Robey & Co.
(Boston, MA), June 1891, pp.
15-18
American Annual of Photography and Photographic Times Almanac for 1892,
The Scovill & Adams Co. (New York, NY), 1891, ads p.
101
How to Make Photographs and Descriptive Price List,
The Scovill & Adams Co.
(New York, NY), January 1892, pp.
15-18
How to Make Photographs and Descriptive Price List,
The Scovill & Adams Co.
(New York, NY), April 1892, pp.
15-18
American Annual of Photography and Photographic Times Almanac for 1893,
The Scovill & Adams Co. (New York, NY), 1892, ads p.
83
American Annual of Photography and Photographic Times Almanac for 1897,
The Scovill & Adams Co. (New York, NY), 1896, ads p. lxi
(bargain page)
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