No 3A Folding Autographic Brownie

OBJECT TYPE: Camera
MANUFACTURER: Eastman Kodak Company
NATIONALITY: American
PLACE MANUFACTURED: US, NY, Rochester
OBJECT NAME VARIATION: Brownie, No 3A Folding Autographic
INTRODUCTION DATE: July 1916
PRODUCTION DATES: July 1916-Nov. 1926
FILM TYPE: 122 rollfilm
IMAGE SIZE: 3¼ x 5½in.
ORIGINAL LIST PRICE: $10.00-$18.00
APPROXIMATE MANUFACTURED QUANTITY: 70,000 before 1921
SERIAL NUMBER RANGE: from serial number 1001
FUNCTIONAL TYPES:
  Folding rollfilm
  Autographic
STANDARD LENSES/SHUTTERS: Achromatic or Rapid Rectilinear, Kodar f/7.9
INTEGRATED SHUTTER: Yes

NOTES:
  "Imitation leather covering; reversible reflecting finder; sliding
  focusing with lock; from serial number 1,001." (Coe, B, 1988).
  .
  July 1916-1924: Achromatic lens, Kodak Ball Bearing shutter: $10.00
  July 1916-1924: Rapid Rectilinear, Kodak Ball Bearing shutter: $12.00
  Jan 1925-1925: Rapid Rectilinear lens, Kodex shutter: $17.00
  1925: Achromatic lens, adjustable speed shutter: $14.50
  1925: Rapid Rectilinear lens, adjustable speed shutter: $17.00
  May 1925-1926: Kodar f/7.9 lens, Kodex shutter: $18.00
  1926: Achromatic lens, Kodex shutter: $14.00

OBJECT IDENTIFIER: E130.00451

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 --Kodak Camera Chronology.-- US, NY, Rochester: UNPUBLISHED, 1984.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. 180.//
George Eastman House Information File - Technology Collection Manuals.//