The Una Camera

Features

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Body Construction

Basically a wooden box with a drop-down front.
A small section of the box top folds up to allow space for lensboard vertical shift
Made of Cherrywood or mahogany
Held together with polished brass corners and brass screws
Leather bellows
Spirit level along 2 axes (horizontal and forward tilt)
Small ivory plaque with the manufacturer's address and camera ID: The Una Camera

Lens and Shutter

135mm Carl Zeiss Jena f/4.5 Tessar
Compur shutter
Speeds from 1/300 (I think) to 1 sec.

Movements

Vertical shift
Vertical tilt

Camera Back
Rotating back allows vertical and horizontal compositions
Ground glass back has a removable folding leather shade
6 double sided sheet film holders (quarter sheet, I think) with inset ivory buttons to number them 1-12. There were some glass plate negatives in one of these too.
120 roll film back with dark slide. This makes it much easier than shooting on sheet film as long as I remember to take out the slide before exposing!!!

Other
Top of body is fitted for some type of viewfinder. The slot is wider than a modern hot shoe. It might be some sort of Graflex fitting.
It all came in a leather case to match the whole works. It fits the camera, film holders, and 120 back perfectly and is labelled with the name and address of the manufacturer
Hand Crafted by :James A. Sinclair & Co Ltd., 3 Whitehall, London, SW 1

Pictures taken with the Una

I just got some Kodak Portfolio II scans back from my lab so I will be putting them up as soon as I get a chance to crunch them down in Photoshop....