Kodak Jiffy con imballo originale Analogue camera

An elegant folding camera, the Jiffy Kodak, an icon of 1930s Art Deco design conceived by the renowned industrial designer Walter Dorwin Teague. This model, produced by the Eastman Kodak Company of Rochester between 1933 and 1937, is distinguished by its elegant front with linear geometric motifs in enamelled metal, typical of the first series (the subsequent Series II had a blacker, simpler front).

This exemplar mounts a Twindar lens with two-zone adjustable focus by turning the front ring: "5 to 10 feet" for portraits and "beyond 10 feet" for landscapes. The "pop-out" snap-opening mechanism is smooth and characteristic of this line. The camera uses film formats 620 or 616 (Six-20 or Six-16 models), producing large negatives.

The lot includes the original 'Jiffy Kodak' box with period-coordinated graphics, showing evident signs of wear but preserving its historic charm. There are also vintage paper documents: an original Kodak exhibition guide and, curiously, an instruction manual for a 'Coronet Box Camera No. 2', which, although not belonging to this machine, represents an interesting paper relic added to the contents. An ideal piece for collectors of pre-war American cameras and lovers of industrial design.