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'