an old wooden camera with lens at our coming auction
Toronto. .. as the Quebec farmer said flashing his camera. In Quebec, Kodak was so pervasive that ANY camera was called a ‘Kodak’. But not all cameras were made by Kodak.
For instance, the camera at left was made by Scoville. It has a brass lens with a series of stops on a single disk. Scoville (much later Anthony and Scoville), was the second largest American photographic materials maker in the 1800s. The Anthony company which Scoville joined was the largest. Both were founded long before Eastman began his photographic glass plate business. In the 1900s the merged company became Ansco.
The camera shown above, is Lot 306 at our May 5th auction. There are many items of interest to the film or digital photographer/collector. Come on out and meet old friends once again while bidding to add to your collection and/or user gear.
