do you know, i'm sure that initially as soon as people see this onscreen, they're going to think oh, looking telescope. but of course it's not a telescope, is it? no. i've always had a passing interest in cameras and of course, being a blackpool boy, i'm interested in anything that was made in blackpool. and a camera dealer approached me about 15 years ago and said he found a camera that was made in blackpool and was i interested. and this is that camera. i said, yeah. it's a wonderful wonderful little item. everything we need to know about it is really essentially written on the front plate. it's made by the british ferrotype company. now, i know that it was made between around about 1905 and up to about 1915. we've got a number of over 2,000 on here, but i'm not sure exactly how many were made. i have to say, they don't turn up very, very often. what we've got is something that takes a magazine of what we call ferrotype plates. you know what a ferrotype plate is, i'm sure. it's a small metal disc which has a light sensitive emulsion on it. that is inserted via the back section here