{"id":23201,"date":"2022-05-10T01:03:53","date_gmt":"2022-05-10T05:03:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/?p=23201"},"modified":"2022-05-10T22:42:04","modified_gmt":"2022-05-11T02:42:04","slug":"will-do-anything-to-get-a-sale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/will-do-anything-to-get-a-sale\/","title":{"rendered":"will do anything to get a sale"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_23202\" style=\"width: 235px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Midget-Marvel-Popular-Mechanics-Aug.-1941.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-23202\" class=\"size-full wp-image-23202\" src=\"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Midget-Marvel-Popular-Mechanics-Aug.-1941-sm.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"142\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-23202\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">summer of 1941 ad for one kind of &#8220;Midget Marvel&#8221; camera<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Toronto<\/strong>, The August, 1941 issue of Popular Mechanics ran an advertisement for a camera called the &#8220;Midget Marvel&#8221;. It was offered for less than $9 American including the leather case.<\/p>\n<p>Some different cameras used the same name, so I am unsure which one is this camera.<\/p>\n<p>However, given the price, specifications and included leather case, I suspect it is an imported remaindered camera. It looks a bit like a Wirgin camera &#8211; the post by the viewfinder may have supported an optional rangefinder &#8230; Never heard of a &#8216;<a href=\"https:\/\/camerapedia.fandom.com\/wiki\/Vario\">Vario<\/a>&#8216; shutter before but they were around for awhile.<\/p>\n<p>My thanks to good friend, George Dunbar, for sharing this advertisement with us.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Toronto, The August, 1941 issue of Popular Mechanics ran an advertisement for a camera called the &#8220;Midget Marvel&#8221;. It was offered for less than $9 American including the leather case. Some different cameras used the same name, so I am &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/will-do-anything-to-get-a-sale\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1944],"tags":[972,398,2425],"class_list":["post-23201","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","tag-ad","tag-camera","tag-case"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23201","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23201"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23201\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23206,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23201\/revisions\/23206"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}