Ben Akiba Walking Stick Camera prints Beautifully designed folding-bed type camera

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

III lens 16

1938 --- 280544 K

5cm im Ibsor Compur-Verschluss - in gutem und funktionstüchtigem Zustand

Ben Akiba Walking Stick Camera prints Beautifully designed folding-bed type cameraExtremely 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,