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Ensign Ful-Vue Model II

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Ensign Ful-Vue Model II

Lying somewhere between pseudo-TLR and Art Deco locomotive is the Ensign Ful-Vue Model II, a peculiar-looking British pseudo-TLR box camera. Despite its name, this is technically the third camera to bear this moniker with the original Ensign Ful-Vue being a relatively conventional box camera. After merging with another firm, the company—now known as Barnet Ensign Ross Ltd.—radically redesigned the Ful-Vue and gave it a more sculptural form but chose to keep the same name.

Toyoca Six

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The Toyoca Six is an extremely rare dual format folding camera introduced in 1957 by Toyohashi Y.K. Tougodo under the brand name Toyoca, a contraction of “Toyohashi” (the city in which the company was based at the time) and “Camera.” The other part of the name, “Tougodo,” was named after one of Japan’s most famous naval heroes, Admiral Togo Heihachiro who shared a hometown with one of the company’s founders.