the c1940 Kodak Deux camera courtesy of Stan White
Toronto. The late Stan White chose to highlight the little Kodak Duex camera in the column “A Treasure from my Collection”. Only retailed for a couple of years, the Duex was an ugly duckling to camera collectors.
Stan begins the tale, “I suppose that because of the extraordinary number of cameras that have been and are, that some will not get the collector-attention they deserve. According to the literature, the Kodak Duex is not particularly collectable or rare. Perhaps I had been unlucky but I’d never seen one until a few weeks ago, when in flea market, there it was.
“It was manufactured from 1940 to 1942. Its construction mirrors the shortages that were to come with the war and is mostly Bakelite.”
Stan’s column continues in our journal issue 38-2 sent to all members. More recent members can read this issue on our DVD they received by mail. It includes pdfs of all volumes of Photographic Canadiana from 1 to 40. No DVD? Not a member? Well, you can easily fix that! Just go to the right hand sidebar or the MEMBERSHIP menu item above and sign up today!
