A man demonstrating a Siebe Gorman & Co Antipoys Halfmask in Portsmouth Dockyard, Hampshire

A ½ length portrait of a man in a suit wearing a respirator and holding a board on which is stensilled "D Antipoys Halfmask Messrs Siebe Gorman & Co". The respirator covers the nose and mouth, has head straps and has a flexible corrugated tube on the left side extending down to the waist. This tube has a thread on the end to allow it to screw into something. The man is standing outside a brick building, presumably in Portsmouth Dockyard. Vertical format.

Object details

ID: N24507
Type: Negative
Materials: Glass plate negative
Display location: Not on display
Date made: 12 January 1934
Credit: National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London
Measurements: Overall: 164 mm x 120 mm