Tyler & England Brothers
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Chas. Tyler & England Brothers Ltd made, or at least sold cameras in London, for a few years around the turn of the twentieth century. An advertisement reproduced in Grace's Guide gives the company address as 79 Copenhagen Street, off the Caledonian Road in King's Cross, London.[1] Notes at Early Photography state that the company was started in 1897, and was firstly a maker of photograph mounts, and from around 1900 began to sell cameras wholesale.[2] The company branded cameras KayCee (for King's Cross) and later TEB. In 1907 the company was bought by Butcher.
- KC No. 3 (or KayCee?): Wooden folding field camera for whole plate (4¾x6½ inch)[3]
- TEB No. 0: Wooden folding field camera for quarter-plate.[4]
- Teb No. 5: Metal-bodied folding camera for 118 roll-film or quarter-plate.[5] Very similar to the No. 8 cited below.
- Teb Film No. 8: Metal-bodied folding camera or roll-film and also plates.[6] Everset shutter with speeds 1 - 1/100 second, plus 'T' and 'B'. F/7.5 Dr Farber Anastigmat (perhaps suggesting that the camera is a German import), stopping down to f/44. Reflex finder with attached bubble level, rotating for vertical and horizontal pictures. Focusing scale in feet and metres on the bed; adjuster on the right of the bed (user's right) to set focus for 'F' (film, loaded inside the camera) or 'P' (plates, loaded in holders attached at the back, so in a different plane). Film size (one photograph of the listing cited shows it next to a 120-film camera) appears to be at least 3¼-inch: quarter-plate or postcard, or perhaps 4x5-inch.
Notes
- ↑ TEB advertisement, 1901, for their photographic Christmas card competition, at Grace's Guide.
- ↑ Notes on Tyler & England Brothers at Early Photography.
- ↑ KK No. 3 at Collectiblend.
- ↑ TEB No. 0 at Collectiblend.
- ↑ Teb No. 5 at Collectiblend.
- ↑ Teb Film no. 8 in a lot of four folders sold at Chiswick Auctions' Photographica auction in October 2021.
