Waistcoat Detective Concealed Camera

Object/Artifact

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The Story Museum

Name/Title

Waistcoat Detective Concealed Camera

Entry/Object ID

L2026.7.2

Description

Waistcoat Detective/Concealed Camera Stirn Pattern, by J. Robinson & Son, London and Dublin, c. 1890 A circular all-metal nickel-plated 'detective' camera intended to be worn beneath a waistcoat with the lens, disguised as a button, protruding through a buttonhole. It took six small round pictures on a single circular glass plate.