Albion

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There is also a folding quarter-plate field camera named the Albion, sold by the high-street chemist Taylor's Drug Company Ltd of Leeds and London, at about the same time.

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The Albion is a ¼-plate tailboard camera by E & T Underwood of Birmingham with reversible back and Underwood lens, c.1890. Focussing is by sliding the rear standard. The Albion is identical in appearance to another Underwood model, the "Instanto".

The camera pictured has an ivory plate on the top that reads: THE "ALBION" UNDERWOOD'S PATENT. Two brass triangles on the front standard sides are later replacements for the original wooden ones.