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Zeiss Ikon Balilla-Box |
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Manufactured or assembled in Germany from (Circa) 1934 to (After) 1935.
Index of rarity in France: Rare (among non-specialized garage sales)
Inventory number: 7520
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Chronology of cameras Zeiss Ikon
Warning! Here is the Balilla-Box, the camera of the Italian youth!
This is how an advertising leaflet in Italy praised the quality of this small box camera identical to the Baldur Box. It was the young clientele which was targeted by this camera, sold for 55 lire, but the young reader also discovered on the brochure some photos showing groups of children photographed in martial postures and dressed in the black uniform of the ONB (Opera Nazionale Balilla). This institution, directly dependent on the Italian fascist party, aimed to train young people in fascist ideology.
The Balilla-Box is one of the few cameras manufactured by Zeiss Ikon not to be sold in Germany. Its name comes from an Italian hero, a young boy who threw a stone against the Austrian occupiers in the 18th century. Other objects (pen, car, plane) also bore the name of Balilla in the first part of the twentieth century.
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