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Coronet Cameo |
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Manufactured or assembled in United Kingdom from (Circa) 1948 to (After) 1948.
Index of rarity in France: Rare (among non-specialized garage sales)
Inventory number: 2988
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Chronology of cameras Coronet
Le Coronet Cameo est un minuscule appareil, très simple, datant de 1948. Il a pris la suite du Coronet Midget qui utilisait aussi du film 16 mm. Un viseur télescopique et un format horizontal permettent d'obtenir un boîtier légèrement plus compact.
Le Coronet Cameo valait 17 shilling et 10 pence en 1948.
Chacune de ses faces, considérée en plan, différente des autres, constitue un sculpture abstraite.
Coronet Camera was founded in 1926 in Birmingham, UK by Frederik John Pettifer. In 1932, he moved the company to 308-310 Summer Lane in the Aston district. In 1933, the company was renamed Coronet Limited. The production was significant, with 300,000 simple lenses being ordered from Taylor Taylor & Hobson in 1935!
Alongside the production of low-end cameras, such as box and folding cameras, F.J. Pettifer also manufactured cameras using colored Bakelite, with the help of neighboring company Edwin Elliott, which molded cameras and lenses for Coronet. Many of the cameras produced were "gift objects" or sold by mail-order companies.
During World War II, Coronet's workshops were destroyed by German bombings. Coronet was acquired in 1946 by Dufay-Chromax Limited and stopped all production around 1967.
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