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A varied group of mid-20th-century photographic equipment and darkroom accessories, featuring several items of British manufacture. The collection includes a Wrayflex 35mm camera body by Wray of London, bearing the stylized W logo but lacking a lens. Folding cameras are represented by a Kodak Six-16 Junior, marked as made by Kodak Limited London, constructed with a metal body, black leatherette covering, and black fabric bellows; its shutter faceplate is marked with speeds T, B, 25, 50, and 100. Boxed camera models include a Randorflex No. 110 twin lens reflex camera produced in Hong Kong for S. D. Rand Ltd. London, a Kodak Brownie Flash B camera for 620 film, and a Gilbert Superior Simple Camera produced by Arthur Gilbert London Ltd. Technical instruments within the lot include a Geneva Optical Company lens measure marked G.O.Co. and Made in U.S.A. in a small wooden box, alongside an Aldis slide and filmstrip viewer in a grey hammertone-finish metal case. Darkroom and hobbyist items comprise a black-painted metal Trap Lamp oil burner with original paper instructions, a Philatector electric watermark detector in its original box, and a Winpak magnesium trisilicate mixture box from Thornton and Ross Ltd. The group is completed by two leather camera cases, one embossed for Kodak and the other for Ilford.
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