Bidspirit auction | A Mid-20th Century Japanese Polaroid
A Mid-20th Century Japanese Polaroid Metal Land Camera Model 120 - A mid-20th century Japanese Polaroid Land Camera Model 120 constructed from metal and leatherette. The camera features a die-cast metal folding body finished in textured charcoal gray leatherette with satin chrome trim. It is designed with a black bellows system, a coupled rangefinder for manual focusing, and a black leather carrying strap with metal buckles. The lens board carries a Yashica Yashinon 1:4.7 f=127mm lens in a Seikosha-SLV leaf shutter, with the marking PATHFINDER LAND CAMERA on the bezel. The front board is printed with POLAROID MADE IN 120 JAPAN, and the side body bears a small oval adhesive label reading PASSED JMDC. The original printed card box is included with handwritten ink notations on the lid reading return Dark Room, along with a black lens cap and a Polaroid Land Camera Model 160 instruction manual.