Romain Talbot
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| 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] Talbot held patents relating to bicycle equipment.[11]
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 Talbot registered wooden wheel-rims as a trademark (or perhaps patented them?) in 1900.
- ↑ 1904 Advertisement for Morrow bicycle hub-brakes by Romain Talbot of Holborn Viaduct in London, at Grace's Guide.
- ↑ French Patent 360887, Bandages pneumatiques pour cycles à jantes en bois (pneumatic tyres for wooden-rimmed cycles), filed December 1905 and granted March 1906 to Romain Talbot; at [1], the patent search facility of the European Patent Office.
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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.
