Kodak Ordinary Kodak B

camera

The Kodak Ordinary Kodak B sells for about £650 (median of only 5 recorded sales, 2005–2025; indicative).

Typical sale price
about£650

median of only 5 sales, 2005–2025

Indicative
£565£580£650£850£1,146

Few sales. Read this as a rough guide; every sale is shown below.

Hammer prices, buyer’s premium removed; eBay as soldHow ↗

How much does one sale move this?

Without the highest sale£615
Without the lowest sale£750

Every sale

A Kodak Eastman Ordinary Kodak B Camera£580
16 Apr 2025 · Flints Auctions · lot 295 · Fine Photographicapremium removed
+ lens
A Kodak Ordinary B Camera£850
21 May 2024 · Flints Auctions · lot 271 · Fine Photographicapremium removed
+ lens
B Ordinary Kodak by The Eastman Company Rochester N.Y. U.S.A., polished wood body, No. 1577 for twenty four 3 1/2 x 4 inch pictures on rollfilm with string-set shutter.£650
25 Oct 2005 · Bonhams · lot 115hammer ↗

What it is

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Generated summary, 4 May 2026 — not checked by hand; prices on this page come from the sales, not from this text.

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Questions

Why does the price vary so much for early Kodak cameras?

Value is driven by survival condition, presence of original fittings and provenance, so two outwardly similar examples can sell for very different sums.

Facts

Maker
Kodak
Type
camera
Sales in the typical price
5
First sale
25 Oct 2005
Latest sale
16 Apr 2025
Median
£650
Middle half
£580–£850
Evidence
Indicative
Method
v1

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“Kodak Ordinary Kodak B: about £650, the median of 5 recorded sales, 2005–2025 (Indicative, method v1).” cameraworth.com, retrieved 8 October 2026. https://www.cameraworth.com/k/kodak/ordinary-kodak-b/

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