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The interest attached to the next photograph we reproduce does not lie
in the subject illustrated, but in the fact that it was taken by a very
primitive sort of camera, made out of an old cigar-box, with a pill-box
pierced at one end by a pin prick instead of a lens, the lid of the
pill-box being retained as the cap. At the back of the camera was an
arrangement for the reception of the plate, and the whole was enveloped
in cloth. This novel apparatus was made by the thirteen-year-old son of
Mrs. C. L. Taylor, of 40, Nichols Street, West Bromwich, who forwarded
it for our inspection.