Photo-Cravate

Photo-Cravate

Camera

Edmund & Leon Bloch

French, 1900s

Photo-Cravate

December 5, 1890
Metal, cloth, and glass
Overall: 9 1/16 × 4 5/16 × 1 9/16 in. (23 × 11 × 4 cm)
Gift of Eastman Kodak Company, ex-collection Gabriel Cromer
1974.0084.0050
DescriptionDry plate detective camera (2.5 x 2.5in plates) disguised as a cravat.
Inscriptions Printed in gilt on fabric, inside neck piece, LC: PHOTOCRAVATE DE BLOCH
Engraved in metal, oval plate affixed to camera rear, BC: [oval line border] PHOTO-CRAVATE \ BLOCH \ Btée en France et à l'Etranger

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