Model A Ordinary Kodak

the "A" Ordinary Kodak was a darkroom-loaded, roll film box camera built from 1891-1895. It produced (24) 2 ¾ x 3¼" images. It is housed in a polished, natural finished wood box and has a string-set sector shutter, and exposure counter. There was no viewfinder on the "A," having instead, V sighting lines pressed into the wood on the top surface. The shutter works. The leather pull for the front access panel has been replaced and the area around the string pull has the normal fingernail marks. There is no "sink stopper" lens cap included. The camera sold for $6.00, a savings of $2.50 over the deluxe model. Billed as the "Young Folk's Kodak", the 1892 Kodak catalogue asserted that "any boy or girl, 10 years old or over, can readily learn to make the finest photographs".