Excellent Looking Old Prop Camera black lacquer 6th plate ambrotype in a

6th plate ambrotype in a half case

a ball and a circle for example

but then there they are

backed with what appears to be a square of old plexiglas mounted on the inside

and I would guess the watercolor dates to the early 20th century

Excellent Looking Old Prop Camera black lacquer 6th plate ambrotype in aThis old camera doesn't do a thing; I believe it was just made as a prop, though I have no idea the story behind its making and what it was used for. I just found it find it! a wonderful looking and evocative thing, with frame upon frame of linen (constructed, I believe, to emulate) collapsed bellows surrounding the lens at dead center. Setting it somewhere now feels like inserting the presence of an all seeing eye or acknowledging the contemporary