Recently I acquired a Perken, Son & Rayment camera. It is the so called Rayment's Patent camera; this one is half plate. The camera is however not complete: it is missing a lensboard and a lens, and further its little patent shield.
It shouldn't be a problem to replicate the patent shield since there are some photo's of it on the internet. However, the lens board is quite a distinguishable part of this camera and I therefore would like to replicate an original as much as practicably possible. To be able to do that I would need exact measures and matching wood.
Regarding the measures I would like to ask members who have such a camera, if they could:
1. provide measures of the lensboard (width, height, thickness, and especially measures of the curved line at the upper right corner);
2. to trace the outline/bounders of the board on a piece of paper or perhaps make a scan on a flatbed scanner - with a ruler for the measures? and make a copy available (online?);
3. take the measures of the two breadboard ends of the board (the upper breadboard end has the curved line in it).
Concerning the wood: the camera and lensboard were made from Hunduran mahogany. If someone has a little piece available, I would be most interested of course.
Concerning a piece of brass hardware: since the lensboard is missing also the little brass plate on its top is missing. However this piece shouldn't be to hard to make out of a little piece of a brass plate.
Here is a picture of a comparable camera complete with board and lens:
On the below camera the breadboards can be seen more clearly:
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