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Stirn Concealed Vest Camera, photo 4.
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Stirn Concealed Vest Camera.
In 1886 C.P. Stirn bought the rights to make a unique kind of vest pocket camera that was invented by Robert D. Gray and first produced by Western Electric Co. in New York.
From 1886 to 1888 about 15,000 examples of the Concealed Vest Camera were sold. The camera had to be loaded with a round film plate, 17cm in diameter. The round brass body with the exposure dial with a clock hand, and the funnel type lens barrel gave it an unique appearance. 6 round exposures on a round film plate with a diameter of 17cm. This camera can be hidden so that the narrow lens opening looks through the buttonhole. That how the camera got its popular type name "buttonhole camera",
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