Wing New Gem
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The Wing New Gem is a wooden camera that makes fifteen separate exposures, each about 1¼ inch square, on a 5×7 inch (13×18 cm) plate. It was made by Simon Wing and Company of Charlestown, MA, in about 1901.[1] The camera would probably have been used commercially for tintype 'gem' portraits. The plate, developed as a positive by reversal, would be cut into its fifteen parts; small portraits to be given or sent to family and friends.