The Korona Petit was manufactured by the Gundlach Optical Co. in circa 1905. Described as an excellent compact and complete camera for making ngatives for prints, lantern slides and enlargements. Constructed of wood with a seal grain cover. Rack and pinion front focus with a metal standard that is nickel plated and highly polished. Spring actuated ground glass focusing screen to accept Korona petite plate holders. A reversible brilliant finder and two tripod sockets. Fitted with a special symmetrical lens housed in a junior automatic shutter or optionally fitted with a verastigmat, lens or 4x5 III turner-Reich lens in a regular shutter. The camera was available in two sizes to take either 3 1/4 x 4 1/4 or 3 1/4 x 5 1/2 images. The outside dimensions are 2 1/2 x 4 1/2 x 5 3/8 and 2 1/2 x 4 1/2 x 6 5/8 respectively.

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