This box holds the disassembled lens components for 1983-375 part 1. The box is made from tropical hardwood, has a sliding clip catch and two recessed handles which pull out to allow the box to be lifted. Perhaps this implies it was originally stored at the bottom of a larger box with the rest of the equipment. The inside is lined with suede leather, with fitted compartments.
The lens equipment is made in lacquered brass. The contents are briefly, a small lens and a large lens, three screw-in stops, a detached lens attachment with four screws, a screwdriver, two screw attachments, a lens barrel, in three sections and other minor pieces.
The main part of the lens screws to the camera body. It has a screw thread that allows the attachment to be reversible. Conical single element lens is 82mm in diameter, which reduces down to a 63mm male thread. Second attachment is a lens barrel with no lenses. It has a male thread at one end and a female on the other. It has a 63mm thread. One section is engraved with ‘photographe a Verres combines invente par Charles Chevalier ingenieur Opticiene Brévité Palais Royal 163 Paris’. There are two detachable lens parts: one with slightly magnifying lens and one with a detachable rotating shutter on the front. The three screw in diaphragms have diameters of 23mm, 28mm and 38mm respectively. Box contains a wooden handled steel tip, brass shank screwdriver. a steel tripod screw to attach to the side of the camera with tightening nut, a brass screw with iron shank with a brass fitting for the lens, four steel screws, a small unexamined compartment and a slot for an unidentified component.
Overall Box measurements:
Depth = 161mm
Width = 212mm
Height = 77mm
Weight: 180kg
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