The beauty of the past

Isn't this great?

Although the prospect of clearing wasn't such a nice thought this afternoon, we came across this old Anastigmat camera in a cupboard. Lovely leather case, fabulous clicky shutter, interesting green and red transparent bits on the back, a chunky dial and lens and wonderful bellowy bit. Sorry, I don't have all the technical terms, but I did ooh and ahh for ages over the craftmanship of the camera.

This belonged to my grandfather, bought in 1951 - sadly he died that year so didn't get to use it much but my mum made full use of it in her job.

A potential 1950s blipper?