Kodak Wide Angle Camera

Kodak Ltd., London, 6 1/2 x 8 1/2" Zeiss Goerz-Dagor 9/10cm no.2214701. Removable box-form lens shade. Ex Spira Collection. (Probably introduced in the 1920's and advertised in the Kodak catalogue as suitable for police work. The earlier versions were supplied with Wide Angle Protar lenses in nesting off-centre lensboards that allowed some shift or rise. The lens and lensboard on this camera seem to be original and the lensboard is reversible for "universal" or "close up" work. A similar camera was used by the well-known photographer Bill Brandt for his "Perspective of Nudes" series.) This camera is not listed in Brian Coe's "Kodak Cameras; The First Hundred Years" or in McKeown's "Collectors Guide to Kodak Cameras".