Item no. M103 (meter)
Type: frankmark
Country: France
Date of use: 16 July 1955
Business stationery (cover) used by the company Specialités TIRANTY, one of the leading wholesale suppliers and manufacturers of photographic equipment in France, with meter advertising the simple camera of bakelite BANCO. The camera was produced in Paris by the company KAFTA (founded by German-born Fritz Kaftanski) in 1950s. The camera had a pop-up shutter/lens assembled on a cylindrical tube and used type 620 spools with film. Frames had format 6 x 9 cm.