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Kodak Retinette 1B Type 037 & original case plus spare lens from 1950s/1960s.
Lovely little untested barn find.
This lovely little Kodak Retinette 1b camera comes intact in its original case and unusually a spare lens in its own case which is clipped to the strap. The camera is in fairly good cosmetic order given its age, however I have not tested it other than to verify that you can see through the viewfinder, that the film loading mechanism opens & closes and that the shutter fires. I believe this is a Type 037 as the known serial number range of that type of camera ended at 274266, the stamp on the top of this camera gives it a serial number of 231601.
According to an online camera encyclopaedia The Type 037 camera was made between October 1959 and February 1963. It has a built-in coupled selenium meter made by Gossen; the meter readout is visible in the bright-line viewfinder, and is used by centering the meter needle. The lens is a Rodenstock Reomar 45mm f/2.8 in a Pronto-LK shutter, with speeds from 1/15 to 1/500 second, plus Bulb. The film is advanced with a lever, unusually mounted underneath the camera. This is made from plastic (and it is common to find Retinette IBs with a broken lever). The known serial number range of the camera is from 50981 to 274266: thus if the series was continuous, a minimum of 224,266 type 037 cameras were made.
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Category: Cameras and Photography:Vintage Photography:Vintage Cameras:35mm Cameras
Location: Salisbury