Kodak No. 2A Brownie Camera

Box camera for 21/>x41/ on 116 film. Early models have cardboard bodies. Later ones have aluminum bodies, some colored, made in USA or UK.

— McKeown’s Price Guide, 1997–98, p. 97

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