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'''Romain Talbot''' was a wholesale dealer in photographic goods in Berlin, from 1855.<ref name=McK>{{McKeown12}} p913.</ref> At least for some of the period the firm was active, Talbot did not make cameras, but sold them under his own '''Errtee''' ('RT' for Romain Talbot) brand. McKeown lists a few folding cameras for plates and roll film, including rebranded [[Balda]] and [[Foth]] cameras. | '''Romain Talbot''' was a wholesale dealer in photographic goods in Berlin, from 1855.<ref name=McK>{{McKeown12}} p913.</ref> At least for some of the period the firm was active, Talbot did not make cameras, but sold them under his own '''Errtee''' ('RT' for Romain Talbot) brand. McKeown lists a few folding cameras for plates and roll film, including rebranded [[Balda]] and [[Foth]] cameras. | ||
− | There is also the '''Errtee ferrotype button camera''' for one-inch [[ferrotype]] buttons, incorporating a developing tank.<ref>[http://www.auction2000.se/auk/w.Object?inC=WLPA&inA=2_3&inO=732 Errtee ferrotype button camera] sold at the [http://www.auction2000.se/auk/w.ObjectList?inSiteLang=&inC=WLPA&inA=2_3 second/third Westlicht Photographica auction], in May 2003.</ref> This has a 60 mm f/3.5 or f/4.5 [[Laack]] Schnellarbeiter lens.<ref name=McK></ref> Another street or fairground camera with a Talbot-branded lens, this one for postcard format pictures, also developed in the camera, was sold at auction by Rahn.<ref>[http://www.auction2000.se/auk/w.Object?inC=FHR&inA=09052010&inO=736 Velophot street camera] with Romain Talbot 16.5 cm f/6.8 Lampro Doppel-Anastigmat, sold at the auction [http://www.auction2000.se/auk/w.ObjectList?inSiteLang=&inC=FHR&inA=09052010 Photographica 12] by [http://www.photographica-auctionen.de/eng/ Rahn AG], on 9 May 2010.</ref> | + | There is also the '''Errtee ferrotype button camera''' of about 1910, for one-inch [[ferrotype]] buttons, incorporating a developing tank.<ref>[http://www.auction2000.se/auk/w.Object?inC=WLPA&inA=2_3&inO=732 Errtee ferrotype button camera] sold at the [http://www.auction2000.se/auk/w.ObjectList?inSiteLang=&inC=WLPA&inA=2_3 second/third Westlicht Photographica auction], in May 2003.</ref><ref>[http://auction-team.de/new_highlights/2009_03/ph/065.html Errtee button camera] in the highlights of the [http://auction-team.de/new_highlights/nh_ph_03_2009.htm Photographica and Film] auction by [http://www.auction-team.de/english/index.htm Auction Team Breker] on 21 March 2009.</ref><ref>[http://auction-team.de/new_highlights/2011_03/ph/024.html Errtee button camera] with a pack of a hundred 25-mm button plates, sold at the [http://auction-team.de/new_highlights/nh_ph_03_2011.htm Photographica and Film] auction] by Breker on 26 March 2011.</ref> This has a 60 mm f/3.5 or f/4.5 [[Laack]] Schnellarbeiter lens.<ref name=McK></ref> George Eastman House has a wooden (or wood-covered) version, decorated to look like a miniature cannon, complete with wheels.<ref>[http://www.geh.org/fm/toronto/htmlsrc/toronto_sum00002.html#R760.00001 Räderkannone] (wheeled cannon) ferrotype button camera, at [http://www.geh.org/ George Eastman House].</ref> Another street or fairground camera with a Talbot-branded lens, this one for [[postcard format]] pictures, also developed in the camera, was sold at auction by Rahn.<ref>[http://www.auction2000.se/auk/w.Object?inC=FHR&inA=09052010&inO=736 Velophot street camera] with Romain Talbot 16.5 cm f/6.8 Lampro Doppel-Anastigmat, sold at the auction [http://www.auction2000.se/auk/w.ObjectList?inSiteLang=&inC=FHR&inA=09052010 Photographica 12] by [http://www.photographica-auctionen.de/eng/ Rahn AG], on 9 May 2010.</ref> |
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+ | Talbot himself died in 1909.<ref>British Journal of Photography Almanac, 1910 [http://notesonphotographs.org/index.php?title=British_Journal_of_Photography_Almanac_Annual_Summary_of_Photographic_Inventions_and_Events_in_Photographic_History/1910 Obituaries page], reproduced at [http://notesonphotographs.org/index.php?title=Main_Page Notes on Photographs] (by [http://www.eastmanhouse.org/ George Eastman House]).</ref> Talbot dealt in other goods besides cameras, including motor accessories and bicycles, and the company had an outlet in London.<ref>[http://www.flickr.com/photos/13519089@N03/4334667992/ Advertisement for Errtee snow-chains] in [http://www.flickr.com/photos/13519089@N03/ ''Taki Steve'''s Flickr stream].</ref><ref>[http://historische-fahrraeder.de/mein-fahrrad/talbot-rotsiegel.html Talbot Rotsiegel] (red-seal) bicycle at [http://historische-fahrraeder.de/startseite.html Historische Fahrräder]. The text (in German) suggests the Talbot company registered wooden wheel-rims (perhaps a misunderstanding: the bicycle shown appears to have wooden ''mudguards'') as a trade-mark in 1900.</ref><ref>[http://www.gracesguide.co.uk/File:Im19040323Cyc-Morr.jpg 1904 Advertisement for Morrow bicycle hub-brakes] by Romain Talbot of Holborn Viaduct in London, at [http://www.gracesguide.co.uk/Main_Page Grace's Guide].</ref> | ||
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+ | * [http://www.bonhams.com/auctions/18103/lot/372/ 9x9-inch folding plate camera outfit] branded for Talbot, sold at the [http://www.bonhams.com/auctions/18103/ Art and Antiques auction] by [http://www.bonhams.com/ Bonhams], on 21 July 2010. | ||
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Revision as of 21:00, 28 January 2014
Double-extension plate camera with 13.5 cm f/6.3 Talbot Doppel-Anastigmat: probably a 9x12 cm Balda-Kamera sold under the Romain Talbot brand image by John de Grooth (Image rights) |
Romain Talbot was a wholesale dealer in photographic goods in Berlin, from 1855.[1] At least for some of the period the firm was active, Talbot did not make cameras, but sold them under his own Errtee ('RT' for Romain Talbot) brand. McKeown lists a few folding cameras for plates and roll film, including rebranded Balda and Foth cameras.
There is also the Errtee ferrotype button camera of about 1910, for one-inch ferrotype buttons, incorporating a developing tank.[2][3][4] This has a 60 mm f/3.5 or f/4.5 Laack Schnellarbeiter lens.[1] George Eastman House has a wooden (or wood-covered) version, decorated to look like a miniature cannon, complete with wheels.[5] Another street or fairground camera with a Talbot-branded lens, this one for postcard format pictures, also developed in the camera, was sold at auction by Rahn.[6]
Talbot himself died in 1909.[7] Talbot dealt in other goods besides cameras, including motor accessories and bicycles, and the company had an outlet in London.[8][9][10]
Notes
Camera industry in Berlin |
Agfa | Amigo | Astro Berlin | Bermpohl | Bopp | B+W | Foth | Goerz | Grass & Worff | Levy-Roth | Ernst Lorenz | Plasmat | Rudolph | Rothgiesser & Schlossmann | Rüdersdorf | Schulze & Billerbeck | Sida | Stegemann | Romain Talbot |
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 McKeown, James M. and Joan C. McKeown's Price Guide to Antique and Classic Cameras, 12th Edition, 2005-2006. USA, Centennial Photo Service, 2004. ISBN 0-931838-40-1 (hardcover). ISBN 0-931838-41-X (softcover). p913.
- ↑ Errtee ferrotype button camera sold at the second/third Westlicht Photographica auction, in May 2003.
- ↑ Errtee button camera in the highlights of the Photographica and Film auction by Auction Team Breker on 21 March 2009.
- ↑ Errtee button camera with a pack of a hundred 25-mm button plates, sold at the Photographica and Film auction] by Breker on 26 March 2011.
- ↑ Räderkannone (wheeled cannon) ferrotype button camera, at George Eastman House.
- ↑ Velophot street camera with Romain Talbot 16.5 cm f/6.8 Lampro Doppel-Anastigmat, sold at the auction Photographica 12 by Rahn AG, on 9 May 2010.
- ↑ British Journal of Photography Almanac, 1910 Obituaries page, reproduced at Notes on Photographs (by George Eastman House).
- ↑ Advertisement for Errtee snow-chains in Taki Steve's Flickr stream.
- ↑ Talbot Rotsiegel (red-seal) bicycle at Historische Fahrräder. The text (in German) suggests the Talbot company registered wooden wheel-rims (perhaps a misunderstanding: the bicycle shown appears to have wooden mudguards) as a trade-mark in 1900.
- ↑ 1904 Advertisement for Morrow bicycle hub-brakes by Romain Talbot of Holborn Viaduct in London, at Grace's Guide.
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- 9x9-inch folding plate camera outfit branded for Talbot, sold at the Art and Antiques auction by Bonhams, on 21 July 2010.