A Sanderson de Luxe Hand & Stand Camera with Photographs

1900, black leather covered, with Carl Zeiss Jens Protarlines f/5.6 224mm lens, body, VG, lens, VG, complete with three DDS and maker's case.

Provenance: This camera belonged to James Leonard Wood (1890 - 1941) who ran a photography business in Royston in Yorkshire. His commercial work specialised in photographing coal mines and was featured at the Photography in Commerce and Industry exhibition of 1938. An archive of his work is now in the National Coal Mining Museum. He was an intrepid photographer, on one occasion shooting down an open shaft from two boards placed across it.

This lot includes a large quantity of wood mounted cut out photographs with some examples including a Colliery Ambulance, Brierley Central Rescue Station department showing early breathing apparatus, 'Monckton' pit pony receiving 1st prize at the Yorkshire Show 1932 and other various coal miners. Only two wooden holders are included. A large selection of resin prints from the coal mining industry are included.