Excellent Looking Old Prop Camera tiny painting Vanity Fair

Vanity Fair

4 1/2" wide (handle is 1 3/4" wide)

"Until our star shall shine upon our meeting

Ready now to house a new collection

His magic career began inauspiciously in New York City in 1858--his act

Excellent Looking Old Prop Camera tiny painting Vanity FairThis old camera doesn't do a thing; I believe it was just made as a prop, though I have no idea the story behind its making and what it was used for. I just found it find it! a wonderful looking and evocative thing, with frame upon frame of linen (constructed, I believe, to emulate) collapsed bellows surrounding the lens at dead center. Setting it somewhere now feels like inserting the presence of an all seeing eye or acknowledging the contemporary