Vintage?

 Maybe,not  but it  was certainly old.

It belonged to my father,I’ guessing about 1935.
He had several plate cameras, including an unusual1/4 box  box. which had a magazine to hold about 6 glass plates, you wouldn’t want to carry it far. He also had a beautiful mahogany  Thornton Pickard half-plate.
The start of the war more or less ended the photographic business except for the odd bit of  d&p.
I do   feel  that it’s a bit sad that budding photographers no longer have the thrill of seeing  their first image revealed.