No. 1A Gift Kodak
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| image by Coleccionando Camaras (Image rights) |
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]
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| No. 1A Gift Kodak with inlaid cedar gift box and card board shop sales box image by Dirk HR Spennemann (Image rights) |
References
- ↑ No. 1A Gift Kodak Camera at National Museum of PLay
- ↑ No 1A Gift Kodak at Redbellows website
- ↑ The card board shop box repeats this pattern.
- ↑ Brian Coe, Kodak Cameras, the First Hundred Years (Hove, UK: Hove Foto Books, 1988; ISBN 0-906447-44-5) p.113.
