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Hi,
Are you sure that your camera is a Seneca camera?
Here is a link that has all the catalogues from 1898 to 1923 https://piercevaubel.com/cam/catalogsseneca.htm I had a quick browse through a selection of the catalogues but could not find your camera listed.
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Hi,
This is a high speed camera using 36 mm film, here is a link to a PDF file with more information. https://www.pacificrimcamera.com/rl/03443/03443.pdf
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Some nice cameras !!
Do you have a picture of the Louis Van Neck?

Hello,
There is a "For Sale List topic" under "site suggestions" that discussses how this works.
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there are 2 versions of this camera Bob I with changeable lens L39 Leica thread
Bob II fixed lens, flash attachment on top.

Mildred Scheel was the wife of West German Federal President Walter Scheel. A great philanthropist and friend of Andy Warhol. She had Polaroid to produce 1000 gold-plated cameras which were then auctioned specifically for her charity, the German Cancer Fund "Deutsche Krebshilfe". The camer...

Probably part of a series of movie cameras. This model looks closer to what you have https://www.christies.com/en/lot/lot-6099972

My guess is that this was a leathered covered camera but as the leather was probably deteriorated someone removed all the leather - do you still see leather traces/black remains of leather? Potentially this could then be a folding ensign https://collectiblend.com/Cameras/Houghton/Folding-Ensign.html...

I don't think I can add very much but it seems to me that Samuels might not have been a producer of cameras, I can not find anything on the company as a camera manufacturer, maybe Samuels was a camera distributor/shop that had other companies make branded cameras. The Stirn detective camera looks in...