Lot Essay
The 13 x 18cm (7 x 5 inches approx.) model is the rarest of the three sizes made.
Details
ZEISS IKON, Germany
A 13 x 18cm. tropical Tropica folding baseboard camera no. H.79679 with polished teak body, German-silver binding strips, black leather bellows and a Carl Zeiss, Jena Tessar f/6.3 21cm. lens no. 871089 in a dial-set Compur shutter
A 13 x 18cm. tropical Tropica folding baseboard camera no. H.79679 with polished teak body, German-silver binding strips, black leather bellows and a Carl Zeiss, Jena Tessar f/6.3 21cm. lens no. 871089 in a dial-set Compur shutter
Literature
Tubbs (1977), Zeiss Ikon cameras 1926-1939, p. 141.
Further details
See illustration