No. 1 Pocket Kodak

Format

120

System

Kodak Pocket (1920s)

Shutter

Kodex, or Diomatic with the Anastigmat

Metering

none

Spec Notes

*** A NAME COLLISION KODAK CREATED ITSELF, AND AA-13 CARRIES BOTH ***. This is the 1920s FOLDING Pocket Kodak on 120 film. AA-13 also carries a completely separate, earlier block - 'Pocket KODAK Camera 1895 1896 102 & plate $5.00', then Models '96, '97, '98, '99 and D through 1901 - which is a BOX camera on 102 film and a different product entirely. They share only the words. The 1895 line belongs to a later slice and must never be merged with this one. Autographic: Kodak's 1927 catalogue says so in two words, 'Autographic, of course.' GENERATION FOLDED IN: AA-13's separate 1929-31 row 'In 4 colors: blue, brown, gray and green' - finish, not a dimension. 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, Kodar f/7.9, or Kodak Anastigmat f/6.3

Rangefinder

No

Alternate Names

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Introduced

1926