{"id":29150,"date":"2024-07-16T01:03:50","date_gmt":"2024-07-16T05:03:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/?p=29150"},"modified":"2024-07-11T16:58:26","modified_gmt":"2024-07-11T20:58:26","slug":"a-metal-miniature-camera","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/a-metal-miniature-camera\/","title":{"rendered":"a metal miniature camera"},"content":{"rendered":"
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the Marion Metal Miniature Camera<\/a> c1885 (bottom of box)<\/p><\/div>\n

Toronto<\/strong>. Many of us think miniature cameras stem from the 1920s when the Leica was announced but there were many earlier ones. In this case it is a French camera named after Monsieur Marion, and sold around 1885.<\/p>\n

The late John Kantymir recounts how he added one of these very rare cameras to his collection, “This camera story has a real twist to it when a gentleman in England bought a trunk full of junk at a boot sale. He paid 50 pounds for the trunk and thought he was taking a risk at getting anything for it. Out of the mess he found an odd metal tube which he thought was a microscope camera. He described it as such when he offered it on eBay.<\/p>\n

“In my searches I happened to come across the listing and somehow it just did not sit right in my mind\u2019s eye. I just couldn\u2019t figure it out.<\/p>\n

“I was lying in bed wondering about it when all of a sudden it came to me. I had a eureka<\/em> moment and sat up and yelled \u201cI know what it is!\u201d I really scared the living bejesus out of my wife, Carri who was lying beside me. I was sure it must be a Marion\u2019s<\/a> Metal Miniature camera built about 1885 when a number of miniature cameras were being introduced to the market.”<\/p>\n

Following John’s story is added material in an illustrated article titled “Marion\u2019s Metal Miniature” written by the late \u00a0Dr Robert G Wilson, a long standing member of the PHSC.<\/p>\n

Members continued on with the story in issue 38-4 that spring (2013). Later members could read the story in the pdf version of 38-4 on their copy of our DVD which includes all volumes 1 through 40 of Photographic Canadiana<\/em>. You don’t have the hard copy or the DVD? You are not a member? Well, see the MEMBERSHIP menu item above, or the right hand sidebar item on membership using PayPal. Sign-up and the DVD will be sent via Canada Post!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Toronto. Many of us think miniature cameras stem from the 1920s when the Leica was announced but there were many earlier ones. In this case it is a French camera named after Monsieur Marion, and sold around 1885. The late … 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":[1944],"tags":[398,563,4619,4601,820],"class_list":["post-29150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","tag-camera","tag-glass-plate","tag-kit","tag-miniature-camera","tag-minicam"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29150","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=29150"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29150\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29154,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29150\/revisions\/29154"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}