Banno

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Banno Bōeki K.K. (伴野貿易株式会社) was a Japanese company, with addresses in Tokyo (Ginza), Osaka, Dalian and Shenyang (the latter two in China).[1] It distributed the Alma cameras between 1939 and 1941 and was certainly the owner of the "Alma" brand.[2] It also distributed the Peacock II in 1939,[3] and the First Reflex and Auto Semi First in 1943–4.[4]

Cameras distributed

Notes

  1. Its address in Tokyo from 1939 to 1944 was Tōkyō-shi Kyōbashi-ku Ginza 6–4 (東京市京橋区銀座六ノ四). Source: advertisements reproduced in Kokusan kamera no rekishi, pp.58–9, 84 and 88.
  2. Advertisement reproduced in Kokusan kamera no rekishi, pp.58–9.
  3. Advertisement reproduced in Kokusan kamera no rekishi, p.84.
  4. Advertisements reproduced in Kokusan kamera no rekishi, p.88.

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