Samuel Peck & Co.
New Haven CT

Field View Camera

Samuel H. Peck manufactured Daguerreian images, cases, and ~1850-1860 wet-plate cameras.  He entered and partnership with Scovill Mfg. Co. in 1855 and sold out by 1860.

Date Introduced: - ; Years Manufactured: c. 1855-1860
Construction: rear focus via push-pull; single swing; reversing by positioning of plate in holder.
Materials: mahogany body; black painted base; black fabric bellows; brass hardware, three-piece lensboard is painted black.
Sizes Offered: 9x9
Notes:  This camera has a strange mix of black painted and natural varnished components, although all are original.  Even the lens, R. Walzl Baltimore, is the only lens to have been installed on the lensboard.  How does one know that the lensboard, though painted, is original?  It has an assembly no. 6 stamped into it.  By chance, another Peck camera (a studio camera) having a natural colored lensboard which very much matches its body also has a no. 6 assembly number - both these assembly numbers were struck from the same tool.
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