The Silver Ticka pocket watch outfit. Fitted with an Achromatic lens. Outer case of metal. Houghton. c.1908

A very popular metal miniature camera in the form of a pocket watch. It was designed to use roll film, 17.5mm wide, contained in a special cardboard drop-in cartridge. The lens, carried in the winding stem, had to be covered by a screw-on cap between exposures. No viewfinder was fitted but a clip-on finder was available as an optional extra.

The Ticka camera was introduced in 1905 and offered for sale until approximately 1914. The camera was a licensed copy of the Expo Watch camera, made by the Expo Camera Company in the United States.

The Silver Ticka pocket watch outfit. Fitted with an Achromatic lens. Outer case of metal. Houghton. c.1908

Excerpt from the Houghton catalogue 1908 "The actual negative size produced by the "Ticka camera is that of an ordenary peny postage stamp, but in order that the popularity of the 'Ticka' may become an established fact, we are issuing in conjunction with it a piece of apparatus, which we call the "Ticka Printing Box". This printing box provides the user with a means of producing enlarger pictures 31/2x21/2 and so simple is it to use, that these large prints can be made just as easily as one would make contact prints from a negative in an ordenary printing frame.

The 'Ticka Printing Box 'A' couple with intructions 4/6s.

Manufacturer:

Nessrs Houghton Ltd

London & Glasgow c.1908.