Car boot sale vintage camera haul

The car boot sale we went to yesterday turned out to be a treasure trove for vintage cameras. I found four, for just a few pounds each. Below is a Kodak Autographic No. 1 Jnr. - a beautifully made bellows camera, still in fine condition, made in the period 1914-1927. It's called an "Autographic" because it took A-130 film that allowed the photographer to write on the film with a metal stylus through a slot at the time of taking the shot. When the film was processed, the text would appear at the margin of each frame. This peculiar, finickety system didn't prove popular and Kodak stopped making Autographic cameras of any variety in 1932.

I'm going to try it with 120 film but I'll have to respool it onto 130 spool if I can find one (or else bodge something with washers).

The camera below is the first streamlined version of the Ensign Ful-Vue, made 1946-49. It's basically a box camera with a cool Art Deco design. I shot a roll of 120 film on this earlier today but I can't process it until I go home later in August.

Last and, sadly, least: two more Box Brownies. I've a horrible feeling that I'm building the World's Biggest Collection of Shabby-Looking Box Brownies but they always look so sad and they never cost more than £2 so I just can't resist. On the left is a Brownie Flash II, made 1958-63, and on the right is a Six-20 Popular Brownie, made 1939-43.

And to top it all off, the Autographic and the Brownie Flash II both had used films inside them. I'm going to try processing them though there's only the tiniest chance of getting recognisable images off the film after what could be many decades. But we shall see ...