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Luzo camera

1891-1901

Vest Pocket Tenax Camera

1908-1911

Photo-Jumelle Binocular Camera

1905

Lancaster Omnigraph Detective Camera

1894

Book form detective camera opening to triangular shape. Lens at apex- simple; shutter faulty. Takes 3 3/4" rollfilm. Patents by H A Benedict, US 478837, July 12 1892, 493747 March 21st 1893. No. 56 (M 2680)

Improved Pocket Kosy camera

1893

Box magazine plate camera for 3 1/4 x 4 1/4 inch plates. Rouch instantaneous doublet lens No 7023 with 4 Waterhouse stops, Thornton Pickard Roller Blind shutter built in behind lens 15/25/40/60/80, released by pneumatic tube (perished). Two reflecting finders with covers. Sliding lens cover, bag type plate changer built in with 12 metal plate holders. Sliding body focusing. W.W. rouch. 1888.

Rouch's Eureka Detective Camera

1888

Collapsing camera for 1 1/2 x 2 inch plates. Fitted with a simple lens of fixed aperture. Small Instantograph type rotary shutter. Conical body of six cylindrical sections, erected by internal coil spring ( like the Lancaster watch camera). Collapses into small morocco covered box. Ground glass focusing screen. J Lancaster and son c.1895.

Lancaster Hand Detective camera

1890-1900

Stirn waistcoast detective camera, made by C.P. Stirn Photographische Camera, Berlin. DRP 3891. Circular metal camera for 14cm diameter plater, 6 pictures 4cm diamter. RR type lens, fixed focus aperture, roating shutter T or I, cord or direct release. Original wind on knob and pointer missing. Neck cord. Back retained by single knob. Brown enamel finish. Original box. No.13073. (M1649)

Stirn waistcoast detective camera

1890-1900

Magazine plate camera in form of book, for 38 x 38mm plates. Lens missing, guillotine shutter with tension adjusting knob, plate carried in metal holder then pushed from upper compartment into focal plane and then into the lower compartment by sliding rod. Number on plate holder back visible through red window. No 1742. Marion & Co, 1934. Invented by Dr Rudolf Krugener.

Kruegener's Patent Book Camera No 1510

1884-1894

C.P. Stirns 'waistcoat' detective camera; photographische camera, made in Germany; agents J. Robinson and Sons, 172 Regent Street, London & Dublin. Circular metal camera for 14cm plate, 6 pictures 4cm diameter. Fixed focus and aperture, RR type lens. Rotating disc shutter, tensioned by wind on knob. Cord release (faulty). Fitting for knob cord. Single knob retains back. Nickel plated finish. (M1998)

Stirn waistcoat camera

1890-1900

Photo-Jumelle detective plate camera. Jules Carpentier; sold by Photographic Association, 16 Brook Street, Hanover Square London, W. Field-glass form camera for 2 1/2 x 3 1/2 inch plates in magazine back with 18 plateholders. Plates changed by pulling and pushing rod. Taken lens Zeis Anastigmat by E Krauss, Paris, Serial No 18755, F:110mm, f8-45. Single speed shutter, pneumatic release valve, Screw focusing inf-1.5m. Viewfinder lens image seen through red window. Serial No 6982-4. In leather case.

Photo-Jumelle Binocular Camera

1905