Spy camera

Today I spent in my mother-in-law's basement helping her any my better half sort though old papers. They were after family histories trying to piece together events of the last century. We discovered that one grandfather was in the French Foreign Legion and became a boxing champion while stationed in Morocco, and one poor great-grandfather that wasn't spent most of the Great War in and out of hospital with his injuries and did indeed die shortly after getting married to a great-grandmother, but not during the war, but nearly a year later of his injuries.

After all the paperwork was sorted an inspected, we sadly have to leave France and return to the UK and work... We took the train back to Paris and then the Eurostar back to London, spent some quality time crammed in like sardines on the Tube crossing London but at least got a seat on the train home.

Today's back blip is a shot of a Lumiere Super-Eljy Type A (circa 1944) that a grandfather (the boxing one) bought to take pictures while he was in hospital. We don't know why he bough a spy camera - the French Secret Service bought a lot of these cameras - though not this specific model - your guess is as good as mine... This camera was in a box along with more conventional family pictures, documents and some less interesting 1960s Instamatics...