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Item no. P1574b (cover)

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Item no. P1574b (cover)

Type: cover

Country: Germany (Third Reich)

Date of use: 7 May 1935

Business stationery (cover, back of) used by MENTOR Kamera-Fabrik Goltz & Breutmann in Dresden (Germany), manufacturer of cameras. The company was founded in 1898 by Hugo Breutmann in Berlin. A year later Franz Goltz joined in as a co-owner, and the company moved to Dresden in 1906. Mentor gained reputation for its box single-lens reflex cameras. The back of the cover shows image of Mentor smallest cameras, the viewfinder Mentor-Dreivier camera that used 127 film.