Lot Essay
The XYZ camera dates from c.1935.
Details
LANCART, Paris
A 12 x 15mm. XYZ camera with nickel-plated body, side-panel with film advance, top-plate with collapsable sportsfinder, back-panel and front panel decoratively engraved, the former with legend XYZ Fabrication Française. Marque et Modele déposes, the latter with with aperture lever 5.1 6.6 clos 8.4 11.5, shutter control, I and P shutter release, engraved Brevete S.G.D.G., a Roussell, Paris Kynor f/3.5 lens and one film spool.
A 12 x 15mm. XYZ camera with nickel-plated body, side-panel with film advance, top-plate with collapsable sportsfinder, back-panel and front panel decoratively engraved, the former with legend XYZ Fabrication Française. Marque et Modele déposes, the latter with with aperture lever 5.1 6.6 clos 8.4 11.5, shutter control, I and P shutter release, engraved Brevete S.G.D.G., a Roussell, Paris Kynor f/3.5 lens and one film spool.
Literature
Coe (1978), Cameras, p. 129.