Monarck Manufacturing Company

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Monarck Manufacturing Company was based in Chicago, Illinois, and sold a line of low-priced cameras. The cameras often bore variations of the company name include Monarck Mfg Co., Monarch Mfg Co., and Monark Mfg Co.


History

In 1940 the company was located at 711 W. Lake Street, Chicago, Illinois[1]. In the bewildering world of Chicago camera manufacturing, note this address was one also used by Spartus, Galter, Herold, Spencer, and their numerous sub-brands.

127 Cameras

  • Flashmaster No. 110 (Graf Meniscus lens)
  • Flashmaster No. 117 (f7.7 achromatic lens, 3 stops)
  • Flash-Master (metal or bakelite pseudo TLR)
  • Flexmaster Reflex No. 211 (Graf Meniscus Lens)
  • Flexmaster Reflex No. 248 (f7.7 achromatic lens, 3 stops)
  • Kandõ Reflex
  • Royal Reflex (pseudo TLR)
  • Lincoln Candid Type
  • Vogue Candid Type
  • Churchill Candid Type
  • Traveler Candid Type

135 Cameras

  • Princess No. 300 (apparently the same as the Spartus 35)

620 Cameras

  • Monarck No. 620


Photos


Notes

  1. Popular Photography, June 1940, Page 107
See The Chicago Cluster for more probably-related cameras and "companies"
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
Chicago in depth: The Chicago Cluster‎, a bakelite trust?