Claudet & Houghton was founded in 1834 by George Houghton and Antoine Claudet, and subsequently underwent several mergers that resulted
in numerous name changes.
- The company was known as George Houghton & Son (1867-1892), then as George Houghton & Sons until 1903, and then George
Houghton & Sons Ltd.
- When the company merged with Holmes Bros., A.C. Jackson, Spratt
Bros. and Joseph Levi & Co. in
1904, the business became Houghton’s
Ltd.
- In 1915, after establishing a partnership with W. Butcher & Sons Ltd., the company traded as Houghton
– Butcher Manufacturing Co. Ltd. until 1926,
when the name was changed to Houghton – Butcher (Great Britain) Ltd.
- In 1930 the business was renamed again, this time as Ensign, after their most successful line of cameras. Interestingly, the Ensign
name derived from the 'N' sign logo.
- After a later merger with Elliot & Sons Ltd. in 1945 the company became Barnet Ensign Ltd.
- After another merger with Ross, the company became Barnet Ensign Ross Ltd. in 1948.
- Finally, in 1954 the name was changed for the last time, to Ross – Ensign Ltd. The company discontinued the manufacture of cameras,
and was dissolved, in 1961.
Houghton film sizes description can be found at the earlyphotography site. |
| Houghton cameras: | Years of manufacture: | |
| A.A. Verifying camera | c1940 |
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| Aerial Camera | c1930s |
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| Aerial G 28 | c1944 |
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| Ariel | c1906 |
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| Autolet | c1906 |
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| Automatic Magazine Camera | c1891 |
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| British Ensign (Flat Back Ensign) | c1905 |
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| Briton | c1906 |
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| Carbine Box No.3 | c1923 |
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| Coronet | c1900s |
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| Daguerreotype Tropical Sliding Box | c1845 |
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| Dalo | c1903-1905 |
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| Duchess | 1900 |
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| Duo-Ensign 2 1/4 B (box, colored) | c1930s |
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| Duo-Ensign 2 1/4 B (box) | c1930s |
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| Empress | c1900-1920 |
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| Ensign (Pocket Ensign, Regular Ensign) | c1909-1925 |
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| Ensign 2 1/2 (box, brown) | c1923 |
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| Ensign 2 1/2 (box) | c1912-1920s |
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| Ensign 2 1/4 A (box, brown) | c1923 |
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| Ensign 2 1/4 A (box) | c1912-1920s |
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| Ensign 2 1/4 B (box, brown) | c1923 |
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| Ensign 2 1/4 B (box, red) | c1912 |
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| Ensign 2 1/4 B (box) | c1912-1920s |
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| Ensign 2 1/4 B RR (box, brown) | c1923 |
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| Ensign 3 1/2 (box) | c1912 |
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| Ensign 3 1/4 (box) | c1912 |
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| Ensign All Distance (box, black) | c1927 |
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| Ensign All Distance (box, colored) | c1927 |
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| Ensign All Distance Pocket No.1 (black) | c1928 |
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| Ensign All Distance Pocket No.1 (colored) | c1928 |
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| Ensign All Distance Pocket No.2 (black) | c1929 |
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| Ensign All Distance Twenty (box, 1920s) | c1920s |
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| Ensign All Distance Twenty (box, 1936) | 1936 |
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| Ensign Auto Kinecam 16 | c1930s |
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| Ensign Auto Kinecam 16B | c1935 |
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| Ensign Autorange 16-20 | c1953 |
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| Ensign Autorange 20 | c1934 |
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| Ensign Autorange 220 | c1937-1940s |
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| Ensign Autorange 820 | c1955 |
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| Ensign Autospeed | c1932 |
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| Ensign Cadet | c1924 |
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| Ensign Cameo | c1927-1938 |
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| Ensign Cameo Luxus | c1927-1938 |
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| Ensign Cameo Stereo | c1908 |
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| Ensign Carbine | c1920s-1930s |
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| Ensign Carbine (rangefinder) | c1920s-1930s |
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| Ensign Carbine Tropen (Tropical) | 1926-1931 |
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| Ensign Cinematograph | c1914 |
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| Ensign Cinematograph Tropen (Tropical) | c1914 |
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| Ensign Clubman | 1954-1957 |
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| Ensign Commando | c1946-1950s |
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| Ensign Commando (military) | c1945 |
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| Ensign Cupid | 1922 |
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| Ensign de Luxe | c1909-1925 |
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| Ensign Deluxe Reflex | c1910-1930s |
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| Ensign Double 8 | c1935 |
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| Ensign Duo (box, colored) | c1930s |
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| Ensign Duo (box) | c1930s |
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| Ensign E20 (box, colored) | c1927 |
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| Ensign E20 (box) | c1927 |
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| Ensign E26 (box) | c1929 |
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| Ensign E29 (box, colored) | c1924-1932 |
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| Ensign E29 (box) | c1924-1932 |
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| Ensign E29 Duo (box) | c1924-1932 |
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| Ensign E29 Portrait (box) | c1929 |
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| Ensign Focal Plane | c1926 |
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| Ensign Focal Plane Rollfilm Reflex | 1929 |
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| Ensign Focal Plane Rollfilm Reflex Tropical | 1925 |
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| Ensign Folding Reflex | c1914 |
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| Ensign Ful-Vue | 1946-1949 |
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| Ensign Ful-Vue (box) | 1939-1941 |
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| Ensign Ful-Vue (II, black) | 1950-1953 |
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| Ensign Ful-Vue (II, colored) | 1950-1953 |
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| Ensign Ful-Vue Super | 1954-1959 |
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| Ensign Fulvueflex (Synchroflash) | 1957-1959 |
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| Ensign Greyhound | c1950 |
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| Ensign J-B (Junior Box) | c1932 |
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| Ensign Kinecam 4 | c1932 |
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| Ensign Kinecam 6 | c1933 |
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| Ensign Ladies Bag Camera | c1926 |
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| Ensign Mascot (A3) | c1910 |
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| Ensign Mascot (D3) | c1910 |
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| Ensign Mickey Mouse | 1935 |
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| Ensign Midget 22 | c1935 |
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| Ensign Midget 33 | c1934 |
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| Ensign Midget 55 | c1934 |
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| Ensign Midget Silver Jubilee (S33) | c1935 |
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| Ensign Midget Silver Jubilee (S55) | c1935 |
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| Ensign Model D | c1906 |
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| Ensign Model V | c1906-1909 |
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| Ensign Multex (No.0, Ross Xpres 1.9/53mm) | 1937-1938 |
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| Ensign Multex (No.0) | 1937-1938 |
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| Ensign Multex (No.1) | 1936 |
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| Ensign Pocket 20 | c1932 |
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| Ensign Pocket E-20 | c1938-1939 |
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| Ensign Popular Reflex | c1910-1930s |
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| Ensign Popular Reflex Tropen (Tropical) | c1910-1930s |
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| Ensign Popular Sport (folding) | c1924-1925 |
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| Ensign Pressman Reflex | c1910s |
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| Ensign Ranger | c1948 |
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| Ensign Ranger II | c1951 |
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| Ensign Ranger Special | c1953 |
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| Ensign Reflex | c1910-1930s |
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| Ensign Roll Film Reflex (2 1/4 B, horizontal) | c1920s |
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| Ensign Roll Film Reflex (2 1/4 B, vertical) | c1920s |
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| Ensign Roll Film Reflex Tropen (Tropical) | c1920s |
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| Ensign Selfix 12-20 | c1952 |
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| Ensign Selfix 12-20 Special | c1954 |
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| Ensign Selfix 16-20 | c1950s |
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| Ensign Selfix 20 | c1933-1937 |
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| Ensign Selfix 220 | c1937 |
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| Ensign Selfix 320 | 1938 |
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| Ensign Selfix 420 | c1940 |
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| Ensign Selfix 820 | c1950s |
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| Ensign Selfix 820 Special | c1953 |
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| Ensign Selfix Carbine | c1908 |
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| Ensign Simplex Pocket Model CC | c1939 |
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| Ensign Special Reflex | c1930s |
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| Ensign Special Reflex Tropen (Tropical) | c1925 |
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| Ensign Speed Film Reflex | 1929 |
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| Ensign Speed Film Reflex Tropen (Tropical) | 1925 |
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| Ensign Super Kinecam | c1931 |
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| Ensign Super Speed Cameo | c1927-1938 |
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| Ensign Superbe | c1909 |
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| Ensign Victo | c1900s |
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| Ensignette Junior 2 1/4 B | c1914-1916 |
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| Ensignette Junior 2A | c1914-1916 |
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| Ensignette Junior 2J | c1914-1916 |
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| Ensignette Ladies Bag Camera (No.1, aluminum) | c1926 |
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| Ensignette No.1 | c1909-1920s |
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| Ensignette No.1 (anastigmat, aluminum) | c1920 |
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| Ensignette No.1 (anastigmat, brass) | c1910 |
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| Ensignette No.1 (anastigmat, nickel) | c1912 |
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| Ensignette No.1 (gilt) | c1910 |
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| Ensignette No.1 (nickel) | c1911-1920s |
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| Ensignette No.2 | c1912 |
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| Ensignette No.2 (aluminum) | c1920s |
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| Ensignette No.2 (anastigmat, nickel) | c1912 |
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| Ensignette No.2 (gilt) | c1912 |
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| Ensignette No.2 (nickel) | c1912 |
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| Ensignette No.2 (silver) | c1912 |
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| Ensignette No.2 De Luxe (anastigmat) | c1912-1920s |
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| Flush Back Ensign | c1914-1922 |
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| Folding Ensign | c1911-1925 |
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| Folding Ensign (oblong) | c1911 |
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| Folding Ensign Junior | 1912 |
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| Folding Klito | c1900s-1916 |
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| Folding Klito De Luxe | c1913-1918 |
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| Folding Klito Junior | 1915 |
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| Folding Scout No.0 | c1906 |
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| Folding Scout No.1 | c1906 |
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| Folding Scout No.2 | c1906 |
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| Folding Scout No.3 | c1906 |
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| Folding Scout No.4 | c1906 |
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| Folding Scout No.6 | c1906 |
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| Holborn Ilex No.0 | c1905-1906 |
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| Holborn Ilex No.00 | c1905-1906 |
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| Holborn Ilex No.000 | c1905-1906 |
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| Holborn Ilex No.1 | c1905-1906 |
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| Holborn Ilex No.1 P.C. | c1905-1906 |
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| Holborn Ilex No.10 | c1905-1906 |
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| Holborn Ilex No.10a | c1905-1906 |
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| Holborn Ilex No.10e | c1905-1906 |
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| Holborn Ilex No.2 | c1905-1906 |
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| Holborn Ilex No.3 | c1905-1906 |
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| Holborn Ilex No.3a | c1905-1906 |
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| Holborn Ilex No.3b | c1905-1906 |
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| Holborn Ilex No.4 | c1905-1906 |
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| Holborn Ilex No.5 | c1905-1906 |
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| Holborn Ilex No.5 P.C. | c1905-1906 |
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| Holborn Ilex No.5a | c1905-1906 |
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| Holborn Ilex No.5b | c1905-1906 |
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| Holborn Ilex No.5c | c1905-1906 |
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| Holborn Ilex No.6 | c1905-1906 |
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| Holborn Ilex No.6a | c1905-1906 |
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| Holborn Ilex No.6e | c1905-1906 |
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| Holborn Ilex No.7 | c1906 |
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| Holborn Ilex No.7a | c1906 |
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| Holborn Ilex No.8 | c1905-1906 |
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| Holborn Ilex No.8 Tropical | c1905-1906 |
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| Holborn Ilex No.8a | c1905-1906 |
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| Holborn Magazine Camera | c1900-1905 |
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| Holborn Postage Stamp Camera | c1901 |
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| Holborn Reflex No.1 | c1895-1906 |
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| Holborn Reflex No.2 | c1906 |
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| Holborn Reflex No.3 | c1906-1908 |
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| Holborn Reflex No.3e | c1906-1908 |
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| King | c1905-1909 |
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| Klito No.0 | c1905-1919 |
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| Klito No.00 (A) | c1905-1919 |
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| Klito No.00 (B) | c1905-1919 |
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| Klito No.000 | c1913-1919 |
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| Klito No.1 | c1905-1919 |
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| Klito No.1A | c1905-1919 |
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| Klito No.2 | c1905-1919 |
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| Klito No.2A | c1905-1919 |
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| Klito No.2B | c1911 |
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| Klito No.2V | c1910 |
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| Klito No.3 | c1905-1919 |
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| Klito No.3A | c1911 |
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| Klito No.4 | c1905-1919 |
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| Klito No.6 | c1905-1919 |
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| Klito No.6V | c1910 |
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| Klito No.6X | c1910 |
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| Klito No.7 | c1905-1919 |
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| Klito No.9 | c1905 |
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| Klito No.9A | c1905 |
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| Mascot No.1 | c1905-1919 |
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| Mascot No.1A | c1905-1919 |
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| Mascot No.2 | c1905-1919 |
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| Mascot No.2A | c1905-1919 |
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| Mascot No.3 | c1905-1919 |
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| Mascot No.4 | c1905-1919 |
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| May Fair (box) | c1930 |
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| May Fair (folding) | c1930 |
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| Planet | c1905-1906 |
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| Pocket Ensign 2 1/4 B | c1960s |
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| Pocket Klito | c1905-1906 |
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| Popular Ensignette | c1922 |
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| Royal Ensign | c1905 |
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| Royal Mail Stereolette | c1900s |
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| Sanderson Junior | c1903-1910 |
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| Sanderson Junior Hand & Stand | 1903 |
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| Scout (A) | c1905-1906 |
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| Scout (B) | c1905-1906 |
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| Shuttle | c1892 |
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| Smyth's Stereo Hand Camera | c1902-1903 |
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| Snapper | c1953 |
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| Standard Ensign | c1909-1911 |
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| Stereo Holborn-Ilex 14 | c1905-1906 |
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| Stereo Holborn-Ilex 14b | c1905-1906 |
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| Stereo Klito | c1890s-1900s |
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| Sylvar | c1909-1921 |
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| Tailboard Camera | 1880s |
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| Ticka Watch | 1905-1914 |
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| Ticka Watch (brass) | 1905-1914 |
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| Ticka Watch Focal Plane | 1905-1914 |
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| Ticka Watch silver | 1905-1914 |
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| Ticka Watch-Face | 1912 |
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| Triad | c1895-1897 |
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| Tudor | c1905-1908 |
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| Twin Lens Reflex (TLR) Prototype | c1955 |
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| Vest Pocket Ensign | c1923 |
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| Victo (Triple Victo) | c1900s |
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| Victo Stereo (Triple Victo Stereo) | c1900s |
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| Victo Superbe | c1912-1914 |
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| Victo Tropen (Tropical) | c1908 |
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| Watch Pocket Carbine | c1926-1930s |
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| Watch Pocket Carbine Tropen (Tropical) | c1926-1930s |
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| Zyno | c1905 |
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