Ica ICARETTE camera ( simple early 20th Century point and shoot )

See the Icarette for a more advanced and latter version.

( Only one known by us for sale with photos in very good condition )

We searched for hours finding no other examples with photos.

Serial number(s) E 38743 same on camera back and inside the camera.

Patent date: Pat. Dec. 29, 1908 on wooden take up spool.  It is not

known if this is the original spool that came with the camera, however

the date is consistent with the production dates found on the internet.

We contacted a German collector who looked in his 1913 camera catalog and suggested that our camera probably is "an Icarette of a different year than 1913. I can't tell, though, if it's older or newer than 1913. It would be logical that it's older, and that Ica later added the prism finder to this model and made some other minor changes too. But it's also possible that yours was an economy model manufactured during the war years, or perhaps (less likely) even as late as the depression years following the world economic crisis."

Name: Icarette

Manufacturer: Ica AG

Country of Origin: Germany

Construction:  

Production Period: 1912-1920 +

 

Details:

Plate / Film Size: 120 roll film (for pictures 6 x 6 cm)

Lens: Unknown, uncoated

Shutter: Simple T & I shutter

Movements: Unknown

Dimensions (see photos)  

Date of this Example: c 1915-1920

Serial Number: None

Availability: Hard to Find [yes] 

The camera carries the 'Ica' name on the front of the folding bed, but has no other identification marks other than the aforementioned serial number. . It is believed to be an early Icarette as it also has a very simple T,I shutter and simple lens. It also has no viewfinder - just a wire frame that folds out, attached to the lens board with a sight that slides up from the back.

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