The wooden sliding-box camera was made in Paris in September 1839 by Alphonse Giroux, the brother-in-law of Louis Jacques Mande Daguerre, the inventor of the first practicable photographic process.

The wooden sliding-box camera was made in Paris in September 1830 by Alphonse Giroux, the brother in law of the inventor of the camera. The camera is signed by Jacques Mande Daguerre to verify ...

If you’ve got between 200,000 euro, the auction’s starting price, and 700,000 euro, the expected final price, and a weakness for old, wooden sliding-box cameras then this one’s for you.

Up to now, experts said that apart from some documents there was no proof that the so-called "Daguerreotype", a wooden sliding box camera produced by the Paris company Susse Freres in 1839, really ...

Up to now, experts said that apart from some documents there was no proof that the so-called “Daguerreotype,” a wooden sliding box camera produced by the Paris company Susse Freres in 1839 ...