A Full Life And Nearly 90Year Old !!!! Antique Agfa Box 44 6 x 9 Camera 1932 Germany

A real full life and nearly 90 years old !!!!    Antique Agfa 44 Box  6 x 9 camera      1932     Made in Germany      In vintage condition....some wear due to age and storage       Clean       Untested

This is real antique masterpiece.....an excellent display model

This model camera you do not find everyday !!!!

This is actually a museum piece !!!!

The Agfa 44 camera was known as the Preisbox as first introduced and followed the practice of selling the equipment cheap, to generate sales on the film subsequently.  The camera makes 8 exposures of 6 x 9.  The German manufacturer Agfa was a fairly prolific manufacturer of cameras as well as film and it's products mirrored those of it's bigger competitor, Kodak, to a very close degree.

This 120 roll film box camera was made up to around 1936 and follows Kodak practice closely, though Agfa designed cameras often have neat manufacturing niceties

Construction is a box of thick cardboard covered in faux leather, a wood panel is used to keep the rigidity of the box and serve as the as the shutter mount.  Each end is a steel pressing finished in black enamel with faux leather inserts.  As is common, the hole film transport is withdrawn from the back, after the wind on the knob has been pulled out, in order to load or unload the film.

Less common is the lens is also attached to the film transport box, allowing it to be cleaned easily whilst maintaining a stable lens to film plane distance, again well thought out detail.  The viewfinders are ground glass and just about adequate for the task, but are easily cleaned as the front can be popped of to gain access to the mirrors and screens.

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