Blair Camera Co., (Boston, MA)
Hawkeye Detective Camera, Leather-Covered, Early c.1891
4 x
5
Top
Bottom
Celluloid Label, inside left
door. Stamp below it reads: "Patented / March 29, '87 / May 20,
'90".
Notes:
This example of a leather-covered Hawkeye is unusual in that its left side large door does not have brass hinges, but rather was made using merely the leather covering as a hinge (now separated). It also has a thick wooden spacer between the main body and the front hinged door. These are features that do not match images of other leather-covered Hawkeyes. It may therefore be that this is an early version, made before it became obvious that the leather alone would not make a decent hinge for a door opened every time an exposure was made.
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