Advice about an EH Anthony

[bryans_tx]

Have has this for a while, might be fun to get it working again!
I think this is a wet plate model.

Anyone know what is missing, besides ground glass ?

Does anyone have one like this in working condition ?

 

[shutterfinger]

It appears to be a New York Studio camera. What is the bellows opening size at the rear?
http://piercevaubel.com/cam/catalogs/1903anthscovillalmanaclp730.htm
page xviii

 

[bryans_tx]

Where should I measure ?

the one or two features that helps determine the camera, is the shape of the tilting rear, and the fixed front.
I want to think it belongs to the Climax model family.

 

[shutterfinger]

Measure the inside of the rear standard opening.
Too little detail in your pictures and the catalog(s) to make a definitive call.
Its a tailboard design.
It should accept a variety of Anthony film or plate holders.

A little more research.
Its an Anthony studio camera, era unknown.
Anthony merged with Scovill and Adams in 1902 and changed their name to Ansco, short for Scovill and Anthony Company.
In 1928 Ansco merged with Agfa.

 

[bryans_tx]

found a decent set of pictures, that might make it a 20th century, Scovill Century model

 

[shutterfinger]

If your camera was a Scovill it would not have an E & HT Anthony badge on it. The big problem is there is so little information available on the web. Anthony was a major marketer of photographic supplies therefore their catalogs have few cameras listed in them and printing photos in catalogs had not been figured out at the turn of the century.
Read what is printed about the companies in this link http://piercevaubel.com/cam/am.opt.&scovill.alphabetical.htm
American Optical, Scovill, and Anthony all made cameras that were very similar.
This 1941 Afga Ansco catalog http://www.cameraeccentric.com/html/info/agfa_1.html shows a studio camera with a near identical front standard as your turn of the century E & HT Anthony. There may be more similarities than the pictures show.
http://historiccamera.com/club.html may be better able to accurately identify or confirm your camera's identity. Pictures that show the complete camera, base and controls will be needed.
I believe it to be a 1895-1902 E & HT Anthony studio camera.

 

[bryans_tx]

thanks for the informative replies
maybe in time, i will be able to get it working.. heck at least with a pinhole lens..

 

[Dan Fromm]

http://piercevaubel.com/cam/catalogsanthony.htm

 

[shutterfinger]

All you need is a lens, ground glass for the frame you have, and film holder and attachment frame. The film holder or plate holder frame may be hard to find but one could be made fairly easily.
Photographers of the day probably used their hat as a shutter as exposures were several seconds.

Dan, the only catalog that shows a similar camera is the 1903 catalog showing the camera, stand, and holders as a New York Studio mentioned in post 2.

 

[John Koehrer]

I've had pretty good luck with the bay searching for bellows camera, broken, wooden, 8X10 and whatever you can think of
that might be related.
The nice things about wooden parts is they're so easy to modify or make.