Ben Akiba Walking Stick Camera prints polished-teak body with lacquered brass

polished-teak body with lacquered brass trim

--- B/A --- 1944 --- 367108 --- Die Leica IIId ist eine der seltensten Leica-Kameras mit Schraubverschluss mit einer Gesamtproduktion von 427 Kameras

1938 --- 280544 K

1699980 (perfekt saubere Linsen)

Beautifully designed folding-bed type camera with Sigriste-type focal-plane shutter

Ben Akiba Walking Stick Camera prints polished-teak body with lacquered brassExtremely rare 'spy' camera hidden in the handle of a gentleman's walking stick. The nickel plated brass body produced twenty images, 1. 3x2. 5cm on roll film. Emil Kronke patented his cane handle camera in Britain (1902), Germany (1903) and the United States (1904). It was manufactured by A. Lehmann of Berlin and marketed as the Ben Akiba walking stick camera, fakes and replicas of such cameras do exist! The camera is in very fine original condition,