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Kodak | Panoram No 1, Model A. | Other | 120 Film

ROLL FILM CAMERA. 1900 to 1901. OK, so my collection is supposed to be of British cameras, and I know very little about this one, except that it was given to me by a well-wisher, and I never turn away a free camera of whatever nationality. You will look for a long time before you see another one like this. What I have done to it will be seen as quite unforgivable to some purists but, hey, it was either this or the dustbin. The leather was almost entirely gone, parts were missing, so purely for the sake of keeping it 'alive', I transformed it into a 'tropical' model, finding that the wood under the remnants of the tatty covering was good solid hardwood like teak, cherry or mahogany. It came up well...

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