Voigtlander Brilliant

Like my very first camera, this is a "fake" twin lens reflex camera (fake because you don't focus through the viewfinder lens). The viewing screen of the finder is a clear lens rather than the ground glass you get in a proper TLR (like a Rolleiflex) - and as it's also the full width of the top of the camera, you get a "Brilliant" picture.  This metal model was made from 1932 to 1937; later models were made from Bakelite. The lens does adjust to focus, with three main positions marked, landscape, group and portrait. There are three aperture settings, f/9, f/11 and f/22, and the shutter has 1/25 and 1/50 sec and B.  It takes 12 shots on 120 film, and has a leather ever-ready case, which I've not shown in the photo.

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