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A collection of the strange, odd, and antique. We specialize in the curation and distribution of unique items and hard-to-find objects from around the world.
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Welcome to Curious Canary.
A collection of the strange, odd, and antique. We specialize in the curation and distribution of unique items and hard-to-find objects from around the world.
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The "Gift 1A Kodak" camera was a specially made variation of the No. 1A Pocket Kodak Jr., for the 1930 Christmas season. Designed by famous industrial designer Walter Dorwin Teague (1883 -1960), it was covered in brown leather and had Art Deco motifs on the shutter plate and the enamel base plate. Gift cameras were produced in a limited run of 10,000 at a price of $15 each.
Kodak promoted the cameras as "distinguished, dainty, and feminine, for "elite," "super-chic" young women, and promoted them at renowned women's colleges across the country. Kodak's efforts to make cameras affordable for average Americans would help the company survive the difficult years ahead in the Great Depression. Manufacturers: Ingraham Company; Eastman Kodak Co.
Hit-type cameras are low-cost/low-material micro cameras from post-war Japan.
The Tone was one of these better-produced hit-type subminiature cameras that took 14x14 mm exposures on 17.5mm paper-backed film. It had four aperture stops between 3.5 to 11, and three shutter settings in addition to BULB. These were produced between the mid 1940’s to early 1950’s with this particular one being produced in 1948.
Produced between 1916 and 1922, the Cartridge Premo was Eastman Kodak’s smallest box camera measuring in at 3”x2”x2.5”. The Kodak No.00 Cartridge Premo takes a No. 35 rollfilm (unperforated paper backed motion picture film) which creates a 1¼ x 1¾ inch negative. The shutter has TIME and INSTANT settings.
The roll film would only cost you $.11, but if you wanted to purchase the film, processing and printing, that was a dollar for everything.
The Norton is another subminiature camera was manufactured by Norton laboratories Inc. in Lock Port, New York. Patented on Dec. 19, 1933 by Carl H. Whitlock of Lockport, N. Y.
The camera was constructed of molded black plastic (Durez) with a metal viewfinder. It can take 1 3/4 x 1 1/2 inch exposures on specially made Eastman Kodak company No. 00 roll film - same film the Premo takes. It featured a genuine Eastman fixed focus lens and a precision movement instant shutter. The camera is about 3 1/2 inches wide, 2 1/2 inch deep and 1 7/8 inches tall. The Norton camera was originally priced at 0.39 cents.
This particular model was sold at the Chicago World’s Fair in 1934.
