No 2C Folding Autographic Brownie

OBJECT TYPE: Camera
MANUFACTURER: Eastman Kodak Company
NATIONALITY: American
PLACE MANUFACTURED: US, NY, Rochester
OBJECT NAME VARIATION: Brownie, No 2C Folding Autographic
INTRODUCTION DATE: May 1916
PRODUCTION DATES: 1916-1926
FILM TYPE: 130 rollfilm
IMAGE SIZE: 2-7/8 x 4-7/8in.
ORIGINAL LIST PRICE: $9.00-$16.00
APPROXIMATE MANUFACTURED QUANTITY: 130,000 before 1921
SERIAL NUMBER RANGE: from ser# 951; rounded ends from ser# 38,501
FUNCTIONAL TYPE: Folding rollfilm
STANDARD LENSES/SHUTTERS:
  Achromatic or Rapid Rectilinear to 1925, Kodar f7.9 May 1925 to
  1926
INTEGRATED SHUTTER: Yes

NOTES:
  "Imitation leather covered; reversible reflecting finder; sliding
  focusing with lock; from serial number 951. Mar 1917: Square-ended
  case changed to rounded ends, from serial number 38,501."
  (Coe, B, 1988).
  .
  May 1916-1924: Achromatic lens, Kodak Ball Bearing shutter: $9.00
  May 1916-1924: Rapid Rectilinear, Kodak Ball Bearing shutter: $11.00
  Jan 1924-July 1925: Rapid Rectilinear, Kodex shutter: $13.00
  1925-1925: Achromatic lens, adjustable speed shutter: $13.00
  1925-July 1925: Rapid Rectilinear, adjustable speed shutter: $15.00
  May 1925-1926: Kodar f/7.9 lens, Kodex shutter: $16.00
  1926: Achromatic lens, Kodex shutter: $12.50
  .
  Camera body changed from square to round ends in 1917.

OBJECT IDENTIFIER: E130.00386

BIBLIOGRAPHIC REFERENCES:
Gibson, Dave & Ryon, Don. --Kodak Camera Chronology.-- US, NY, Rochester: UNPUBLISHED, 1984. pp6.//
Coe, Brian. --Kodak Cameras: The First Hundred Years.-- Hove, East Sussex: Hove Foto Books, 1988. pp. 178.//