Lehmann Ben Akiba Walking Stick Camera

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Product number: AI_33_36915
Starting Price €9,000
Estimate €18,000 – 20,000
serial number : 609
Condition : B/A
Manufacture Year : c.1903
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Lehmann Ben Akiba Walking Stick Camera

extremely rare 'spy' camera in perfect original condition, nickel plated brass body with matching lens. 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. This camera is in very fine original condition, with one film spool and original cane

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