Photo-Cravate camera no. 232

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Photo-Cravate camera no. 232
L. Bloch, Paris; 25 x 25mm., metal-body, with internal six-plate changing mechanism, lens, metal plate PHOTO-CRAVATE. BLOCH. BTÉE EN FRANCE Á L'ETRANGER

Literature

Brian Coe (1978), Cameras, p. 58, 59.
J. P. Francesch et.al. (1993), Les Appareils Photographiques Français, p. 308, no. 1477.
Eaton S. Lothrop (1973), A Century of Cameras, p. 58.
Lothrop & Auer (1978), Die Geheimkameras, p. 46,47.

Lot Essay

Bloch's Photo-Cravate camera was first shown to the Société Française de Photographie on 5 December 1890.

An example, complete with cloth cravate, was sold in Cameras and Photographic Equipment, 17 January 1997, lot 430.

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