Junior Box Ensign

This camera dates from c.1929-1933. It is a box camera with a wooden body covered with "Morocco grained leather cloth", which is the fancy way of saying black imitation  leather. It shoots eight 6x9 frames on 120 film. Its lens is a single element meniscus and it has Time and Instantaneous shutter speeds. It has two small viewfinders, one for portraits and one for landscapes. The lens will not focus closer than 10 feet.

On the camera's Instructions for use, it states:

For time exposures insert the thumb nail under the return edge of the Time Exposure Indicator and pull it out as far as it will go. One movement of the Exposing Lever (for Time Exposures), either up or down, opens the shutter and it will remain open until the lever is moved back again.

The listed price for this camera in 1932 was 8s.6d, making it far cheaper than the Pocket 20, which was an entry level folder. It was also available through premium schemes in return for tokens. There were also portrait and tripod attachments available as accessories.

The tall appearance of this camera is due to the spools being placed above and below the film plane. This design did away with the need for an inner cone to hold the film. The image below shows the camera next to a Ful-Vue for a size comparison.

I have only found one reference online to a shutter speed for this camera, which is listed at 1/25. However, given the tripod attachment was an optional extra, this seems a tad slow. Later Ensign box cameras have a shutter speed of 1/30, so this is also a possibility.