{"id":16200,"date":"2019-12-13T05:58:14","date_gmt":"2019-12-13T09:58:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/?p=16200"},"modified":"2019-12-14T13:43:24","modified_gmt":"2019-12-14T17:43:24","slug":"close-to-the-vest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/close-to-the-vest\/","title":{"rendered":"close to the vest"},"content":{"rendered":"
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C P Stirn Vest Camera c1886<\/p><\/div>\n

Toronto<\/strong>. People have always been fascinated with “unusual<\/a>“, \u00a0“spy<\/a>” and “detective<\/a>“cameras. We had a C. \u00a0Stirn vest camera on the block for the Walter Shean auction in the spring of 2003<\/a>. Prior to that, there was an ad printed<\/a> in our journal (06-2), page 3, dated July\/August 1980.<\/p>\n

The tiny camera was designed to fit behind a vest<\/a> with the lens acting as one button and the glass-plate control as a second. Six round images could be taken on a single round glass-plate. An auxiliary box had a thread for a tripod.<\/p>\n

Journal editor Lansdale added some Canadian content. Bob writes, “John Connon (360 degree pan camera inventor) while in New York was working for Stirn and company to try to get his panorama camera on the market, \u00a0became an agent for the Stirn camera in Canada.\u00a0 His father tried to use it covering a trial and was arrested for trying to take a photograph.<\/p>\n

“Stirn came up with the Wonder camera (and stole the patent) to update and replace the Connon pan camera with a simpler system that would appeal to the amateur…, They went bankrupt and nothing became of efforts…..”<\/p>\n

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Toronto. People have always been fascinated with “unusual“, \u00a0“spy” and “detective“cameras. We had a C. \u00a0Stirn vest camera on the block for the Walter Shean auction in the spring of 2003. Prior to that, there was an ad printed in … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[2911,398,2909,2910],"class_list":["post-16200","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-camera","tag-1880s","tag-camera","tag-stirn","tag-vest"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16200","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16200"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16200\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16231,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16200\/revisions\/16231"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}