James A. Sinclair Una No.2 Tropical Hand Camera 4 3/4 x 6 1/2"

With Taylor Taylor Hobson Leicester & London No.2294 with some dust specs inside, black bellows, mahogany wood, brass fittíngs, some dust specs in finder. James A. Sinclair & Company Ltd was a camera-maker in London from about 1904. Sinclair himself was at one time an employee of Adams (another British maker of fine cameras) before setting up his own firm. Sinclair was also involved in Newman & Sinclair, at the same time as Sinclair & Co. was operating independently. N&S made (among other products) shutters, which are seen on many of Sinclair's cameras. Sinclair also retailed photographic goods of other makers. Sinclair is best-known for the Una series of wooden-bodied folding plate cameras in various sizes between 2½x3½ inch (6.5x9 cm) and 5x7 inch, including tropical models, and the aluminium-bodied Traveller Una (scan attached).