Pocket tripod in fountain pen shape. Opens to 9 or 12 inches high with a built in ball and head socket. Jaegar LeCoultre, 1937.
Pocket tripod, part of the Compass miniature camera kit, manufactured in Switzerland by Jaeger LeCoultre in 1937.
The tripod opens to 9 or 12 inches high and has a built in ball-and-head socket. Supplied for use with the Compass camera. The camera was patented in May 1936 and an estimated 5,000 were manufactured before the second world war halted production.
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- Category:
- Photographic Technology
- Object Number:
- 1990-5036/2054/2
- type:
- tripod
- taxonomy:
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- tools and equipment
- equipment by process
- image making equipment
- camera accessory
- credit:
- The Kodak Collection at the National Media Museum, Bradford
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