Spartus
Regal Flash Master, remarkable bakelite compact design with flash, 1939 by Utility Manufacturing, also sold as Spartus Press Flash, Falcon Press Flash and Galter Press Flash. |
Spartus was a camera maker. Originally it was based in New York and named Utility Manufacturing Company. In 1941 it was bought by Spartus and moved to Chicago. In 1951 its head of sales, Harold Rubin, bought the company and named it Herold Mfg. Co.. It made cameras of its own brand Spartus and under the brand or company names of dozens of companies. The cameras had a distinctive styling.
Cameras
- Spartus Press Flash
- Spartus 35 F
- Spartus Co-Flash
- Spartus Rocket
- Spartus Vanguard
- Spartus Full-Vue
Links
Companies of Chicago (Illinois) |
Adams & Westlake | Central Camera Co. | American Advertising and Research Co. | Bernard | Burke & James | Busch | Calumet | Candid | Chicago Aerial | Chicago Camera Co. | Chicago Ferrotype Company | Deardorff | De Vry | Drucker | Galter | Geiss | Herold | Imperial | Kemper | Lennor Engineering Co. | Metropolitan Industries | Monarch | Montgomery Ward | Pho-Tak | QRS Company | Rolls | Sans & Streiffe | Sears | Seymour | Spartus | The Camera Man | United States Camera Co. | Western Camera Manufacturing Co. | Yale | Zar | Zenith |
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