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The brown leather-covered camera has matching brown bellows and came in a cedar box with an art deco enamelled metal pattern on the lid.<ref>The card board shop box repeats this pattern.</ref> A similar pattern is on the outer box and on the camera's folding baseplate. It is a special version of the No. 1A Pocket Kodak Junior and was introduced for the Christmas season in 1930. A total of 10,000 units was made.<ref name="Coe">Brian Coe, Kodak Cameras, the First Hundred Years (Hove, UK: Hove Foto Books, 1988; <nowiki>ISBN 0-906447-44-5</nowiki>) p.113.</ref>  
 
The brown leather-covered camera has matching brown bellows and came in a cedar box with an art deco enamelled metal pattern on the lid.<ref>The card board shop box repeats this pattern.</ref> A similar pattern is on the outer box and on the camera's folding baseplate. It is a special version of the No. 1A Pocket Kodak Junior and was introduced for the Christmas season in 1930. A total of 10,000 units was made.<ref name="Coe">Brian Coe, Kodak Cameras, the First Hundred Years (Hove, UK: Hove Foto Books, 1988; <nowiki>ISBN 0-906447-44-5</nowiki>) p.113.</ref>  
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==References==
 
==References==

Revision as of 11:02, 28 January 2017

The art deco style No. 1A Gift Kodak was intended for women, and was designed by Walter Dorwin Teague.[1] It takes 116 film, and has a meniscus achromatic lens.[2]

The brown leather-covered camera has matching brown bellows and came in a cedar box with an art deco enamelled metal pattern on the lid.[3] A similar pattern is on the outer box and on the camera's folding baseplate. It is a special version of the No. 1A Pocket Kodak Junior and was introduced for the Christmas season in 1930. A total of 10,000 units was made.[4]


References

  1. No. 1A Gift Kodak Camera at National Museum of PLay
  2. No 1A Gift Kodak at Redbellows website
  3. The card board shop box repeats this pattern.
  4. Brian Coe, Kodak Cameras, the First Hundred Years (Hove, UK: Hove Foto Books, 1988; ISBN 0-906447-44-5) p.113.