MAYFIELD, COBB & CO. LTD., LondonA 3¼ x 3¼ inch Pocket Ebonite hand camera, the ebonite body with lacquered-brass binding strips, removable ground-glass focusing screen, the baseboard with tripod bush and inset roundel Mayfield, Cobb & Co. Ltd. London. Makers, red-leather square-cut bellows and lacquered-brass lens panel with integral sector shuttter.

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MAYFIELD, COBB & CO. LTD., LondonA 3¼ x 3¼ inch Pocket Ebonite hand camera, the ebonite body with lacquered-brass binding strips, removable ground-glass focusing screen, the baseboard with tripod bush and inset roundel Mayfield, Cobb & Co. Ltd. London. Makers, red-leather square-cut bellows and lacquered-brass lens panel with integral sector shuttter.

Literature

Walter D. Welford (1887), The Photographer's Indispensable Handbook, p. 64.

Lot Essay

A similar, unattributed, camera was sold at Christie's South Kensington in The Cyril Permutt Collection of Cameras, Optical Toys and Related Material, 10 November 1988, lot 107.
This camera is the earliest known non-wood or metal body camera.

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