G. Gennert, New York, NY
Montauk Rock Camera
1908 Catalog, p. 8
Date Introduced: 1908 ; Years
Manufactured: 1908-c. 1912
Construction: front and rear focus
via rack and pinion (two gear tracks on top of base rails); removable, reversible back; double swing;
Materials: stained cherry body and base; black rubber
bellows;
Sizes Offered: 5x7; 6½x8½; 8x10; 11x14
Notes: This model is not present in Gennert Catalog #57 (1906-7); likewise
it is not
present in Gennert Catalog #65 (1914-1915) and later.
Thus the 1908-c.1912 estimated run.
It appears to be identical to the Gundlach Wizard
View, Variation 3. Starting
about 1903, Gennert re-sold the Seneca Improved View and the Seneca Competitor
(as the New York View). About 1908, they also re-sold the
Gundlach Wizard View, Variation 2. It is not known whether such cameras bear a Gennert
label.
References:
Catalogue of Photographic Apparatus and Supplies No. 58,
G. Gennert (New York, NY), 1908,
p. 8
Catalogue of Photographic Apparatus and Supplies No. 59,
G. Gennert (New York,
NY), c. 1909, p. 24
Catalogue of Photographic Apparatus and Supplies No. 62,
G. Gennert (New York,
NY), 1911-1912
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