Steven Tribe
8-Apr-2014, 04:03
This completed item 351038808733 was listed as a Wallet & Hermagis with the early address at Quai de l'Horloge. This is the same engraving content mentioned by D'Agostini page 174 who gets this information from Kingslake.
The problem is that this is a lens which:
- is black
- has a post 1900 style iris
- has block capital engraved text
- has modern F scale.
It also looks exactly (I think) like an Eidoscope - also F5.
Does this mean that the one Wallet & Hermagis landscape lens around is also a production from after the turn of the century and the supposed connection between the Wallet family/Derogy and Hermagis around 1850 is false and the "story" has just been continued without anyone actually seeing the landscape lens?
The problem is that this is a lens which:
- is black
- has a post 1900 style iris
- has block capital engraved text
- has modern F scale.
It also looks exactly (I think) like an Eidoscope - also F5.
Does this mean that the one Wallet & Hermagis landscape lens around is also a production from after the turn of the century and the supposed connection between the Wallet family/Derogy and Hermagis around 1850 is false and the "story" has just been continued without anyone actually seeing the landscape lens?