Scovill Mfg. Co.
Favorite (A-EEE)
Scovill Dry Plate Making for Amateurs
Catalog, 1886, p.3
5 x 4
Date Introduced: - ; Years
Manufactured: c.1886-1898
Construction: back focus via
push-pull; single swing; reversing by two tripod mounts
Materials: white wood (e.g. basswood) body; cherry bed; black
fabric bellows; brass hardware
Sizes Offered: #A=4x5 (shown in photos above); #B=5x8
(shown in photos below); #C=5x8
stereo; #D=6½x8½; #E=8x10; all sizes and letters have folding beds
Notes: a basic no-frills camera; came
with a nickeled
Waterbury
lens w/ insertable stops (by 1889, the stops were revolving), plate-holder and wooden
case. #'s AA-DD add a dark cloth, plates and ruby lantern. #'s AAA-EEE add what's in the
AA's and a developing outfit and a printing outfit. One of the few vertical 4x5
format cameras made. The Ne Plus Ultra cameras sometimes
used the same letter designations for the same sizes, but
some of them had non-folding beds, while all of the Favorites fold. Very similar offerings to
Tourist Amateur
Outfits, and may be a re-naming of the same, since they
ceased being advertised about the time the Favorite started being advertised. A
minor variation: the above camera (as do most Favorites and Putnam
Marvel) has a non-hinged ground glass frame (must be
removed to insert a plateholder), while the below camera has hinges that look
original. Some
Putnam Marvel cameras are the Favorite re-stamped by
Putnam.
References:
Scovill's
Photo. Series No. 20, Dry Plate Making for Amateurs,
Scovill Mfg. Co. (New York, NY), 1886, p.
a3-a5 (A-DD only)
Obrig Camera Co. (New York, NY) Catalog, 1886
How to Make Photographs and Descriptive Price List,
Scovill Mfg. Co. (New York, NY), distributed by C.H. Codman & Co.
(Boston, MA), April 1887, pp. 25-27 (A-E)
How to Make Photographs and Descriptive Price List,
Scovill Mfg. Co. (New York, NY), July 1887,
pp. 25-27 (A-E)
How to Make Photographs and Descriptive Price List,
Scovill Mfg. Co., distributed by
C.H. Codman & Co. (Boston, MA), September 1888, pp. 10-12
(A-E)
How to Make Photographs and Descriptive Price List,
The Scovill & Adams Co.
(New York, NY), January 1889, pp. 10-12
(A-E)
How to Make Photographs and Descriptive Price List,
Scovill Mfg. Co. (New York, NY), distributed by Buchanan, Bromley & Co. (Philadelphia, PA) Catalog, 1888 (A-E)
How to Make Photographs and Descriptive Price List,
The Scovill & Adams Co. (New York, NY), distributed by Buchanan, Bromley & Co. (Philadelphia, PA) Catalog, 1889 (A-E)
American Annual of Photography and Photographic Times Almanac for 1890,
The Scovill & Adams Co. (New York, NY), ads p. 93
Photographic Material,
Catalogue O & P, James W. Queen & Co. (Philadelphia, PA),
1891, p. 35-36 (as Standard Cameras)
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.
5-7 (A-EEE)
American Annual of Photography and Photographic Times Almanac for 1892,
The Scovill & Adams Co. (New York, NY), 1891, p. 102
How to Make Photographs and Descriptive Price List,
The Scovill & Adams Co.
(New York, NY), January 1892, pp.
4-6 (A-EEE)
How to Make Photographs and Descriptive Price List,
The Scovill & Adams Co.
(New York, NY), April 1892, pp. 4-6 (A-EEE)
American Annual of Photography and Photographic Times Almanac for 1893,
The Scovill & Adams Co. (New York, NY), 1892, p. 146
The American Annual of Photography and Photographic Times
Almanac for 1894, The
Scovill & Adams Co. (New York, NY), 1893, p. 110
How to Make Photographs and a Descriptive
Catalogue of Photographic Materials Illustrated,
The Scovill & Adams Co.
(New York, NY), 1896, p. 23-25 (A-EEE)
5 x 8
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