No. 1A Folding Pocket Kodak - RR Type

Format

116

System

Kodak Folding Pocket

Shutter

Kodak Ball Bearing or Kodak Automatic

Metering

none

Spec Notes

ONE ROW COVERING TWO KODAK NAMES. AA-13 lists 'No. 1A Folding Pocket KODAK Special' 1908-1912 and 'No. 1A Folding Pocket KODAK-RR Type' 1912-1915, and says outright that the second was 'formerly listed as' the first. A rename is zero hardware dimensions, so it is one row spanning 1908-1915. AA-13's $59.00 for it is REFUTED by Kodak's own catalogues, which price the Special at $15.00-$46.30 in 1910 and the RR Type at $15.00-$20.00 in 1913 - $59.00 appears in no catalogue for either name in any of six years checked. One secondary source citing Coe says this camera was renamed again to No. 1A Autographic Kodak in 1914, which would mean AA-13's plain-1A line is missing its first three years. 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

Rapid Rectilinear f/8 double combination

Rangefinder

No

Fold Notes 9d

ABSORBS THE 'No. 1A FOLDING POCKET KODAK SPECIAL' OF 1908-1912, WHICH IS THIS CAMERA UNDER ITS EARLIER NAME, and is back-dated to 1908 accordingly. Kodak printed the SAME THREE PRICES under both names - $15.00, $40.50 and $46.30 in 1909, 1910, 1911 and 1912 - and in 1912 the heading changes from 'No. 1A Folding Pocket Kodak Special' to 'No. 1A Folding Pocket Kodak - R. R. Type' with a WORD-FOR-WORD IDENTICAL spec block, the same 23 ounces, the same automatic focusing lock, and the word 'Special' simply gone from the page. A RENAME IS NOT A DIMENSION. It was never the plain No. 1A either - the 1909 catalogue shows the plain camera at 20 ounces on page 11 and this one at 23 ounces on page 12. THE SHUTTER CHANGES INSIDE THE RUN and does not split it: F.P.K. Automatic in 1908-09, Kodak Ball Bearing from 1910. THE ANASTIGMAT RUNG WAS DELETED IN 1913 - Kodak's 1910 and 1911 text reads 'This model is regularly fitted with the finest R. R. lens and Kodak Ball Bearing shutter, while it will accommodate anastigmat lenses when desired', and the $46.30 Zeiss-plus-Compound rung disappears the same year the Six-Three Kodak arrives at $38.00.

Alternate Names

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Introduced

1908