Samuel Peck & Co.
New Haven CT

 

Non-Folding StereoField View Camera

 

Samuel H. Peck manufactured Daguerreian images, cases, and ~1850-1860 wet-plate cameras.  He entered and partnership with Scovill Mfg. Co. in 1857 and sold out by 1860.    Cameras having Peck markings continued to be made through the 1860's, 1870's and at least until 1884.  This one is a style not found in the few Peck catalogs, and was made in perhaps the 1870's.  This one, with no tilt and a non-folding platform, appears to have been manufacturered c.1860.

   

 

6½ x 8½"

Note the small tripod mount (probably after-market) on the side of the front standard

Bottom

Top

Stamp on top of rear rail

Assembly No. 4 stamped on both the fixed and moveable parts of the front standard

Lenses: Two matched ~5" Petzval-type in brass barrel, engraved: "J.H. Dallmeyer / London 9934" and "J.H. Dallmeyer / London 9935".
The Waterhouse stops are inserted from the top, and can be held in by pulling the exterior lens barrel over it.  This type is most often seen on Darlot Hemispherique Rapide lenses.

 

Date Introduced: - ; Years Manufactured: c. 1860
Construction: rear focus via push-pull; non-folding platform; no swing; non-reversing (initially, but now has an after-market socket applied to the right side of the front standard).
Materials: mahogany body; black painted moveable front standard; black fabric bellows; brass hardware, three-piece lens board is painted black.
Sizes Offered: 6 ½x8 ½
Notes:  A rather primative and plain camera, non-tilt and non-folding.  Another Peck camera having a mix of black painted and natural varnished components - a pattern in Peck?  A large camera, as most stereo cameras were made in 5x8 format.

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