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== Cameras ==
 
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* [[Flexo]] (1949)
 
* [[Flexo]] (1949)

Revision as of 19:46, 25 March 2015

Lipca, which is short for Lip­pi­sche Ca­me­rafa­brik Rich­ter & Fi­scher, was started by a business agreement on October 30th 1947 in Barntrup, Germany, by the former owners of Kamera-Werk C. Richter, the married couple Fritz and Charlotte Richter together with Karl Fischer, a Master of Business Administration.

Some months earlier, in June 1947, the Richter couple secretly left the Soviet zone in occupied Germany together with part of the employees and machinery of Kamera-Werk C. Richter Tharandt (near Dresden) as they feared an upcoming expropriation of that factory. They decided to settle in Barntrup, the hometown of Karl Fischer.

Fritz Richter died in a tragic car accident in January 1948 while en route to a business meeting to discuss the plans for another camera factory in Bünde (later known as Balda Bünde).

The "Lippischen Camerafabrik Richter & Fischer GmbH" Barntrup was then officially founded on May 14th 1948 by the widow Charlotte Richter and Karl Fischer.

In March 1961 the company moved to another location, Bad Nauheim, and registered there under the name "Lipca GmbH".
The Lipca GmbH was officially dissolved on 29th March 1972.

Cameras


The Rollop 35 is not related to Lipca and was produced after the company was closed.[1]
Very probably the Rollop 35 is the same camera as the Franka 125 L.



Notes

  1. McKeown, p. 629.

Bibliography

  • McKeown, James M. and Joan C. McKeown's Price Guide to Antique and Classic Cameras, 12th Edition, 2005-2006. USA, Centennial Photo Service, 2004. ISBN 0-931838-40-1 (hardcover). ISBN 0-931838-41-X (softcover).
  • Personal Lipca research documentation, courtesy of long time Lipca collector and history investigator Herr Ulf Schopfer, Bad Pyrmont, Germany
  • Peter Barz, article "Lipca Teil 1, eine Neugründung der Nachkriegszeit" in the German magazine "Photographica Cabinett 25/02"
  • Peter Barz, article "Lipca Teil 2, Die Kameras de Lippischen Camerafabrik Richter & Fischer GmbH, Barntrup" in the German magazine "Photographica Cabinett 26/02"


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