GOI FS-2

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Product number: AI_22_14534
Starting Price €12,000
Estimate €22,000 – 28,000
serial number : 1364
Condition : A/B
Manufacture Year : 1943
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GOI FS-2

unique FS-2 military gun stock camera outfit for the Red Army with specially adapted FED NKWD camera no.169400, GOI reflex housing no.1364, GOI 4.5/30cm no.1364 (hood), gunstock engraved 'A.E.Dobrovolsky from GOI', strap, filter, 4 film spools and the original instruction book (80 pages, no other known to exist) - all in a special fitted wooden case. The complete outfit is in almost new and perfect working original condition. This outfit was specially engraved and presented by GOI (Government Optical Institute) to A.E.Dobrovolsky, at the time head of Soviet Optical Industry (later A.E.Dobrovolsky directed Contax plant transportation from occupied Germany to USSR, and was head of Kiev optical plant after the Contax equipment was moved to Ukraine). Documents about this outfit are located at the GOI museum in St. Petersburg.

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