This camera comes in good antique condition, there’s the obvious signs of use and aging with settled dust and some wear. This is not tested and I consider this to be a displayable collectible. For those that think that provenance matters this camera definitely has that. This but one of many cameras I purchased from EBTH an online auction house in the Cincinnati area. They has been liquidating Grant M. Haist sizable collection that included hundreds of cameras, slide and film projectors and I purchased as much as I could afford that was reasonably priced. The following is a snippet from his obituary.
Grant Haist was Senior Research Associate at the Eastman Kodak Research Laboratories in Rochester, New York for 32 years before retiring in 1983. He was active in both technical matters and photographic affairs. He has 28 U.S. patents, two books and many technical articles. His photographic work has appeared in National Geographic, National Wildlife, Smithsonian, Kodak Publications and numerous other publications. Fellowships from Royal Society of Great Britain, Photographic Society of America and Society for Imaging Science and Technology have honored his accomplishments. Grant began collecting cameras and photographic books in 1969 and has through the years amassed an extensive collection of Kodak cameras and equipment and Kodak Literature.
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