No. 1 Autographic Kodak Junior

Format

120

System

Kodak Autographic Junior

Shutter

Kodak Ball Bearing

Metering

none

Spec Notes

THE JUNIOR LINE IS A SEPARATE PRODUCT, NOT A GRADE. Three dimensions separate it from the plain Autographic Kodak, in Kodak's own 1920 catalogue prose: a FIXED front where the plain line has 'rising and sliding fronts', a shutter offering limited to the Ball Bearing where the plain line adds the Kodak Automatic, and no Combination Back for glass plates. The number is Kodak's FILM-SIZE designation - 1 is 120, 1A is 116, 2C is 130, 3A is 122 - so each number is a different format, a different body size and a different focal length. Three dimensions, so each number earns its own row, and AA-13 gives each its own price and its own market dates. LENS AND SHUTTER ARE AN OPTION LADDER, NOT SEPARATE MODELS. Kodak's own catalogues print one heading and one description per camera with a price table of lens-and-shutter combinations underneath, and AA-13 carries one row per camera rather than one per grade. Same call as the Kodak 35 in slice 6. Where Kodak promoted a grade into the NAME - Special, Junior, Series II, Series III, Model B - it becomes its own row. DATING: NONE EXISTS. No Kodak serial-to-year table was ever published for any pre-1940 body, and the CAMEROSITY lens code runs only from about 1940 and appears on lenses, not bodies. Bodies of this era DO often carry a serial - museum records show 116880 on a 2C Autographic Junior and 15128 on a 3A Autographic Special, and AA-13 itself notes the highest known serial on the 1888 Kodak as 5192 - so the common claim that only the Medalist and Ektra were serialled is wrong. But an observed serial is not a dating input here. Date these by Kodak's own model letters and hardware notes instead: 'collapsing front', 'wood lens mount' against 'metal lens mount', '1917 Model', 'Model B'. NO PRICE IS RECORDED ON THIS ROW, and that is a finding rather than a gap: AA-13's 'ORIGINAL LIST PRICE' column is a TOP-OF-LADDER figure, not a list price. Verified against Kodak's own catalogues on five Autographic Special rows where AA-13 lands exactly on the dearest rung - and for the Folding Pocket rows it matches NO rung in any of eight catalogue years. The column cannot be ingested as a price field. DATES ARE MARKET DATES, NOT PRODUCTION. Kodak's AA-13 heads its columns 'ON THE MARKET FROM / TO'. No Kodak-published production date exists for any camera in this slice.

Fitted Lens

meniscus achromatic, Rapid Rectilinear, or Kodak Anastigmat f/7.7

Rangefinder

No

Alternate Names

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Introduced

1914