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Thread: Kodak Eastman View 2D: Serial Numbers?

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    Re: Kodak Eastman View 2D: Serial Numbers?

    Quote Originally Posted by Dugan View Post
    You might try contacting Richard Ritter.

    Yes, thanks. I just remembered about Richard Ritter.

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    Re: Kodak Eastman View 2D: Serial Numbers?

    Alfred Stieglitz' 8x10 2-D is in the collection of the George Eastman Museum. You could ask Todd Gustavson, the technology curator there, for its serial number, just for fun.

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    Re: Kodak Eastman View 2D: Serial Numbers?

    Quote Originally Posted by Drew Bedo View Post
    Looking at Kodak 2D cameras on e-Bay this AM. Ran across a nice one, but it is offered at over 2Grand because it has a '"Low Number". . . .in the 90s I think.

    I didn't know that serial numbers were a thing for these cameras.

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    That is a production number. It is used to match parts up after finishing. It is stamped on all 3 rail parts.
    If it was a serial number there is more then two with the same number.
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    Re: Kodak Eastman View 2D: Serial Numbers?

    Right now there is a guy on The-Bay who is asking $2,900 for a 2D. Sure, it has all the extra parts and is in great cosmetic condition but . . . .
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    Re: Kodak Eastman View 2D: Serial Numbers?

    Unless the nameplate on this camera is not original, that's probably a good indication of it's true age.
    Folmer Graflex Corp. was not organized until after 1926, so they could not have been listed as the manufacturer prior to that. Eastman introduced the 2D in 1921, so this is by no means an early model.
    My 2D is from 1947, and by that time Graflex, Inc. is listed as the manufacturer.

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