Lot Essay
Moses suggests that the Riga Minox serial numbering ranges from 1000-c.20000.
THE MINOX
V.E.F., Riga, Latvia
Details
V.E.F., Riga, Latvia
A 13 x 8mm. Minox camera no. 2008 with stainless steel body, top-plate with focusing dial from 8"-, shutter release button and shutter speeded T, B, 2-1000, sliding yellow filter, baseplate engraved VEF Riga Minox. Made in Latvia. Pat.app. and a Minostigmat f/3.5 15mm. lens.
A 13 x 8mm. Minox camera no. 2008 with stainless steel body, top-plate with focusing dial from 8"-, shutter release button and shutter speeded T, B, 2-1000, sliding yellow filter, baseplate engraved VEF Riga Minox. Made in Latvia. Pat.app. and a Minostigmat f/3.5 15mm. lens.
Literature
Hendre, 'Fifty years of the sub-miniature Minox' in History of Photography 13(1), January-March 1989, p.9-17.
Moses (1990), Spy camera. The Minox story, p. 188.
Moses (1990), Spy camera. The Minox story, p. 188.
Further details
See front cover illustration