No. 1A Pocket Kodak Series II

Format

116

System

Kodak Pocket (1920s)

Shutter

Kodex or Diomatic

Metering

none

Spec Notes

The 116 Series II. Its four-colour row folds as finish. NEGATIVE WORTH RECORDING: AA-13 has NO 2C or 3A Series II, no Pocket Kodak Series III at all, no 3A Pocket Kodak Special and no 2C or 3A Pocket Kodak Junior. The Series II and Junior lines are 120-and-116 only. 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 fixed focus, Kodar f/7.9, or Kodak Anastigmat f/7.7

Rangefinder

No

Fold Notes 9d

THE FOUR COLOURS ARE BLUE, GRAY, GREEN AND BROWN, with a carrying case to match, and they are a NOTE rather than a row because colour is not a dimension. AA-13 carries a separate line, 'in 4 colors', 1928-1931, running CONCURRENTLY with the standard line at $25.00 against $24.50 - a finish premium of fifty cents, not a ladder rung. Kodak names the colours identically in two catalogue years, inside the SHARED spec block for the standard cameras: 'In blue, gray, green or brown, with carrying case to match'. No separate lens, shutter, body or focusing entry appears anywhere for them.

Alternate Names

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Introduced

1923