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Model A Ordinary Kodak

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Product number: AI_17_11389
Starting Price €700
Estimate € 1.400 – 1.600
Condition : B
Manufacture Year : c.1892
serial number : 1028
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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 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".

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