Seneca Vest pocket 120 / medium format camera (No reserve price)

The Seneca Vest Pocket Camera was produced between roughly 1916 and 1925 by the Seneca Camera Manufacturing Company. The camera was marketed under the name 'Little Indian'. It was designed as Seneca's smallest and most compact camera; it measured only 1 x 2 x 4 7/8 inches and weighed 8 ounces. The unit could take eight exposures of 1 5/8 x 2 1/2 inches on a No. 254 Vulcan film roll. This camera is equipped with a meniscus achromat lens and fitted with a 'Trio' shutter, which offered settings for T (time exposure), B (bulb/long exposure) and instant exposures with speeds of 1/25, 1/50 and 1/100 second. The construction consisted of an aluminum frame, nickel-plated parts, a covering of fine-grained leather, and a bellows of genuine leather.

The condition of the bellows is fair and is, of course, somewhat light-leaky. The shutter does respond but the lever to operate the shutter must first be pulled upward. Still, the camera remains an interesting device due to its rarity.