Vest Pocket Roll-Tenax Goertz folding miniature rollfilm camera.
C. P. Goerz
Category
Photographic technology
Date
1920 - 1930
Materials
Metal, Leather, Glass
Measurements
Closed size 125 x 65 x 25 mm
Place of origin
Berlin
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Fox Talbot Museum, Wiltshire
NT 1524627
Summary
Vest Pocket Roll-Tenax Goerz folding miniature rollfilm camera. For 127 film. Black leather-covered metal body with black leather bellows. Dagor f/6.8 lens in Goerz shutter. Markings: Embossed in leather on back of camera: CPG logo. Printed at base of standard: C P Goerz, Berlin, D.R.P.
Provenance
Part of the Fenton Collection. A gift from British Film Institute in 2017. From 1986-1999, part of BFI collection for the Museum of the Moving Image. BFI purchased collection in 1986 from James Fenton's Museum of Photography, Port Erin, Isle of Man 1976-1986
Makers and roles
C. P. Goerz , manufacturer