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Banno Bōeki

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:

Other Banno companies

Banno Bunzaburō Shōten (伴野文三郎商店) was a sales company in the early 1930s, which sold the Pathé Baby movie camera.

A company name beginning in "Banno" and ending in "Shōten" (伴野○○商店, with illegible third and fourth characters), appears in the official price list dated November 1941 about the Semi Elka camera.[5] It is not known if this company is related to Banno Bōeki or not.

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.
  5. "Kokusan shashinki no kōtei kakaku", type 3, sections 3A and 4A.

Bibliography

  • Asahi Camera. Advertisement by Banno Bunzaburō Shōten in June 1932 (p.A33).
  • Asahi Camera (アサヒカメラ) editorial staff. Shōwa 10–40nen kōkoku ni miru kokusan kamera no rekishi (昭和10–40年広告にみる国産カメラの歴史, Japanese camera history as seen in advertisements, 1935–1965). Tokyo: Asahi Shinbunsha, 1994. ISBN 4-02-330312-7.
  • "Kamera no kōtei kakaku kanpō happyō" (カメラの公定価格官報発表, Official announcement of the set prices of the cameras), November 1941. Extract of a table listing Japanese camera production and setting the retail prices, reproduced in "Bebī Semi Fāsuto 'Kore ha bebī wo nanotta semi-ki da'" (ベビーセミファースト"これはベビーを名乗ったセミ機だ", Baby Semi First, 'this is a Semi camera called Baby'), an article by Furukawa Yasuo (古川保男) in Camera Collectors' News no. 277 (July 2000). Nishinomiya: Camera Collectors News-sha. P. 27. Type 3, sections 6A and 7A.