I have only experience with film but would like to explore some wet plate photography. I have done a fair amount of reading but no practical experience yet. A local photographer gave me three glass plate holders. I am having trouble figuring them out so I figure someone here may be able to point me in the right direction. Every aspect of them seems to be extremely well made (beautiful woods, hinges, fit, finish and so on) so I would like to put them to good use. They are bigger than what I expected measuring approximately 14 in. by 14 in. on the outside. When I look inside it looks like a plate of 10in. by 12 in. would fit in either portrait or landscape. Is it that simple? Are these 10x12 plate holders? Any idea what kind of camera these would have been made for? Thanks in advance.
Tom Keenan
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