Pathé Baby
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Pathé Baby

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Camera

Pathé Cinema

Maker
French

Pathé Baby

Pathex


ca. 1925
Metal, leather and glass
Overall: 5 1/2 × 1 1/2 × 4 in. (14 × 3.8 × 10.2 cm)
1978.0191.0007
DescriptionBlack leather-covered metal, rectangular, 9.5mm magazine, hand-crank motion picture camera with eye-level viewfinder and fixed f/3.5 lens. The camera accepts 10 meter spools in the magazine.
Inscriptions Embossed in black leather on the door on the left side of the camera: PATHEX MADE IN FRANCE / Engraved in white on lens: TRIANAR KRAUSS F 2cm No 211581 / Engraved in white on apeture switch around lens: 3.5, 5, 7, 10, 14 / Embossed in black leather around hand crank on right side of camera: TWO TURN TO THE SECOND / Engraved in silver on the footage dial on the right side of the camera: Counter 1200 Pictures / Engraved on plate under door inside camera: CONTINSOUZA PARIS BREVETÉ EN FRANCE ET A L'ÉTRANGER CONSTRUCTUERS ÉTABLESSEMENTS / Stamped in plate under door inside camera: 012959

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