This picture might show a gadget to perfect those self-taken pictures almost a century before the TOWIE stars got their hands on them
The 'selfie stick' is being hailed as the must-have stocking filler for selfie-obsessed smartphone users this Christmas.
And the gadget's come in use for TOWIE hunk Dan Osborne and his abs recently - but could people have been using them for nearly a century?
This picture, taken in Rugby, Warwickshire, in 1925, shows Arnold and Helen Hogg taking a picture of themselves just after they got married with the help of, yes, a long pole.
You could maybe even call it a stick.
And not unlike Essex abmeister Dan, Arnold made the schoolboy error of including the stick in the shot - preserving the evidence for his grandson Alan Cleaver to discover.
He told the BBC: 'It's always been a favourite photo of the family,' adding that his granddad was a renowned entertainer and musician, he said, 'He'd have loved the attention the photo is getting now, more than 100 years after his birth, because he was that sort of guy - very off the wall, very entertaining'.
Alan, a freelance journalist, added: "It's wonderful that the rest of the world is delighting in the humour of this situation."
Amateur box cameras of the era would not have been able to take an in-focus self-photo when held at arms length, so photographers would have had to use a remote shutter device like a cable, or build their own gadget - as Arnold Hogg apparently did.
