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    Posted 9 years ago

    magnusen5
    (3 items)

    I believe this was an item from my grandfathers photo processing dark room early to mid 1900's. it measures 12" X 10 1/2" X 3". It is a wood box with a pencil holder built into it on bottom. It opens one way to reveal a tilting mirror at the bottom & opens the opposite way to reveal a place it seems to put a picture or negative. Can it be a part of a photo enlarger? It is well built with dovetail corners. What is it?

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    1. Kydur Kydur, 9 years ago
      It might be a contact printer. Photographic paper is sandwiched together with the negative and then exposed to light through the diffused glass. The masking visible in the 1st photo would allow a smaller image (negative) to be printed in the center of a larger piece of photo paper.

      Or it might be light box for negative retouching. That would explain the pencil holder as well.
    2. magnusen5, 9 years ago
      Thank you Kydur!
    3. rniederman rniederman, 9 years ago
      This is definitely a plate or negative retouching frame (as opposed to a contact printing frame). These date anywhere from the late 1880s to sometime after 1900.

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