This is, I believe, a circa 1900 Rochester Universal Camera, whole plate size. The camera comes with 2 lens boards that are pretty ugly and very unlikely to be original ones.
The camera itself, is amazingly beautiful. I've had a lot of cameras and I'd rank this as one of the best preserved one I've ever seen. According to the catalogs (see page 6 here: [url]http://www.piercevaubel.com/cam/catalogs/1901premopocolp514.htm [/URL]) it is made of mahogany.
My scale says it weighs around 6 pounds; only 3 1/4" thick when closed up. Max extension is somewhere around 18-20". The Rochester nameplate has been replaced by a vanity brass plate with initials on it. The only real mar to the wood I see is where it folds up, see LAST photo below.
The bellows HAVE small corner pinholes. I thought they were light tight until I fully extended them, then I could see small corner pinholes. These can be patched with liquid electrical tape, and there is a current thread here on LFPF about that very topic. The bellows appear to be original and are otherwise fine, so I'd fix the pinholes instead of trying to tape it up or replace the bellows completely.
No holders, just the camera and 2 lens boards. Fits in a large flat rate box!
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$225 + $15 insured US priority shipping. $ to apug if sold here
