Original Kodak no. 1418

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Original Kodak no. 1418
Eastman Dry Plate and Film Co., Rochester, NY; rollfilm, leather- covered wood-body, string-set barrel shutter, film wind key, a Rapid Rectilinear f/9 2 inch lens, with plug cover, the back stamped PAT. MAY 5TH 1885. PATENTS APPLIED FOR IN ALL COUNTRIES

Provenance

Presented by George Eastman to Professor A. P. W. Thomas MA, FLS, FGS of Auckland University; then to Arthur Turner in the early 1920s; and thence by family descent to the vendor.

Lot Essay

Introduced in June 1888 and discontinued in 1889 around 5200 examples of the original Kodak were made before it underwent a re-design appearing in 1889 as the No. 1 Kodak.
Arthur Turner was well known in photography circles in New Zealand and was general manager and a director of Kodak (New Zealand).

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