Duplex Screen Plate
Description
“Paget plates were discontinued in the early 1920s. Apparently production costs had risen to an almost prohibitive amount after World War I due to the difficulties of producing screen plates without defect (Offer 1926).
The product reemerged in1926 as Charles Baker’s Duplex Screen Plate, which featured improved separate screens (of the same Paget pattern) and new panchromatic plates of increased sensitivity made by the Wellington and Ward Company (Coe 1978: 68).27 Duplex Screen Plates were commercially available for a short time, until about 1928.”
(Pénichon, Sylvie (2013): Twentieth Century Colour Photographs. The Complete Guide to Processes, Identification & Preservation. London, Los Angeles: Thames & Hudson, on p. 38.)
Secondary Sources
Pénichon, Sylvie (2013): Twentieth Century Colour Photographs. The Complete Guide to Processes, Identification & Preservation. London, Los Angeles: Thames & Hudson, on p. 38. View Quote
