Mulber (3×4)

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The Mulber (マルバカメラ) was a 3×4 Japanese camera.

It is only known by an ad in the Sep 1938 issue of Asahi Camera, where it appears together with the Mulber Six. The company name was Kuwata Shōkai (桑田商会). It was probably the distributor, based in Osaka.

The Mulber was offered for ¥10. It had a lens and shutter assembly mounted on a telescopic tube. The body was embossed Mulber on the front, it was maybe in bakelite. There was a tubular optical finder centered on the top plate and an advance knob at the left.

The other characteristics are unknown, and no Mulber seems to have recently surfaced.

Bibliography

• 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. Item 257.