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jay bjerke
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Posted - May 21 2010 :  09:19:44 AM  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
Can anyone help me identify this camera? I purchased it about 10 years ago while living in Kiev. The only identifing marks are around the lens: "Detective Pokorny". I can find no reference to this camera anywhere.


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Vladislav Kern
Vlad
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Posted - May 21 2010 :  09:42:31 AM  Show Profile  Visit Vlad's Homepage  Reply with Quote
Hi Jay,

this looks a lot to me like an Ernemann Box, from H.Ernemann in Dresden, circa 1908-1917, if it has Russian writing (it would be great if you post a close up of the lens so we can see) it is probably a Czarist Russia retailer's trademark on it.

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Vlad
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Vladislav Kern
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Posted - May 21 2010 :  09:43:35 AM  Show Profile  Visit Vlad's Homepage  Reply with Quote
A great and collectible find by the way if it is in fact camera retailed in pre-communist Russia.
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Vladislav Kern
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Posted - May 21 2010 :  09:48:47 AM  Show Profile  Visit Vlad's Homepage  Reply with Quote
Iosif Pokorniy probably, a very well known Russian retailer of German cameras.
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jay bjerke
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Posted - May 21 2010 :  11:57:09 AM  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
Thanks, it does look alot like the Ernemann boxes.
Here is a close-up of the lens. Nothing in Cyrillic.


http://www.ussrphoto.com/UserContent/2152010_detective33.jpg



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Vladislav Kern
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Posted - May 21 2010 :  2:54:47 PM  Show Profile  Visit Vlad's Homepage  Reply with Quote
Very interesting! I've never seen house of Iosif Pokorniy write in latin script.. I can't be sure if it's even of Russian origin. I'll let someone else chime in. But it does look like an Ernemann to me..
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