Dubroni No.3, Photographie de Salon
The Appareil Dubroni is a camera for wet collodion plates, made by Maison Dubroni in Paris for a few years from about 1864. The smallest models are box cameras; the larger ones have a bellows front for focusing. The interior of the camera body is lined with glass and later porcelain, so that sensitization, development and fixing of each plate can be done inside the camera; this was the first camera to use such a system. The chemical solutions were put into and out of the camera with a bulb pipette. In the smaller cameras there is a large red window in the back of the camera, with a swivelling metal cover (or a hinged wooden one in some models), so that operations inside the camera can be viewed. — Very rare large version for 7x9cm oval exposures, walnut body, amber glass bottle interior, Dubroni slide focusing brass bound lens engraved ‘Dubroni Paris’, original bulb pipette, back door with metal plaque engraved ‘APPAREIL DUBRONI BREVETE S.G.D.G.’ – the large format Dubroni was useful for portraits – in very fine and original condition. — B+ — c.1865 — — Sehr seltene große Ausführung für 7x9cm ovale Aufnahmen, Korpus aus Nussbaumholz, innen Braunglasflasche, Messingobjektiv graviert ‘Dubroni Paris’, originale Pipette, Rückwand mit Metallplakette mit Gravur ‘APPAREIL DUBRONI BREVETE S.G.D.G.’ – die großformatige Dubroni war nützlich für Porträts – in sehr gutem und originalem Zustand.
