20th Oct, 2017 12:00

Fine Photographica

 
  Lot 123
 

A Walter Griffiths & Co. Guinea Detective Camera

1891, body, F-G, shutter not working, lens, G; Detective camera disguised as a carry case with an elastic band powered guillotine shutter. Marked to inside 'Patentee and Sole Manufacturer, Walter Griffiths, Highgate Square, Birmingham' and 'Gibbs & Son, Pharmaceutical and Dispensing Chemists, Terminus Road, Eastbourne'

Sold for £108

Result plus buyers premium


 
1891, body, F-G, shutter not working, lens, G; Detective camera disguised as a carry case with an elastic band powered guillotine shutter. Marked to inside 'Patentee and Sole Manufacturer, Walter Griffiths, Highgate Square, Birmingham' and 'Gibbs & Son, Pharmaceutical and Dispensing Chemists, Terminus Road, Eastbourne'
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