DAIKO OPTICAL WORKS, Japan

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DAIKO OPTICAL WORKS, Japan
A 4½ x 6cm. cardboard-body Calling Card camera with collapsible body, two side panels, flap shutter, the back printed Taylor Merchant...Made in Japan exclusively for the Taylor-Merchant Corporation. New York 25 NY. Patents Pending, and original instruction sheet, in unopened paper wrapper.
Literature
Sugiyama et.al. (1984), The Collectors Guide to Japanese Cameras, p. 249, no. 4115.

Lot Essay

The camera was supplied with regular black and white film requiring 2½ seconds exposure in sunlight. Taylor-Merchant, a US manufacturer of advertising novelties, offered a developing and printing service. The camera was also sold in Japan under the Pinon name.

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