Chicago Camera Co. Photake

Seamless cylindrical camera for 5 exposures 5x5cm on plates, Achromat lens 14/120mm, rare and unusual. Designed by Henry E. Willsie of La Crosse Wisconsin. His camera was granted U.S. Patent 586,422 on the 29th September 1896 and was manufactured by the Chicago Camera Co., Illiniois, in fantastic and fully original condition with finder, instructions, original print paper, wooden maker's box - ex Naylor collection (c.1897, Condition: A/B)