It's quite possible that Kodak specified the Compound shutters to be made in silver- they would have been a big client after all- but World War II intervened.
One can easily imagine export/import issues, or the shutter manufacturer shifting from consumer manufacture to war work, leaving EK to go with Ilex.
Oh great! Thanks DSM206. So now we have 3 known copies in a chrome compound.Originally Posted by DMS206
Found an early Compound Shutter with a Protar set in a chrome shutter: https://fk-secondhand.com/en/shop/ze...ar-linsensatz/
Hard to determine a date on the lens as the Zeiss lists only seem to start in 1912 with #173,000 and this Protar is # 82,802
The Compound shutter was first sold in 1904 and was sold in a chrome face with black dial and scales until 1908.
Last edited by Embdude; 13-Dec-2023 at 13:30.
Some info about the very early chrome Compound shutter from 1904 - 1908...
http://www.earlyphotography.co.uk/site/entry_S47.html
Found a GOLD Compound shutter with a Schneider Xenar that dates to 1928... Im not sure what to make of this one...
Found another copy of the 14" Eastman Anastigmat Ektar in a chrome Coumpound shutter.
I'll guess that your 14" Eastman is a very early example, if only because of the non-CAMEROSITY serial number. That numbering convention began in 1940, as far as I can tell.
Interesting that all the Eastman Ektars serial numbers are within 10 of each other.
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