Antique_Camera_Guy
Spartus Press Flash
This is he "Spartus Press Flash". It is a bakelite, box-type camera produced by the Utility Manufacturing Company (later renamed the "Spartus Camera Corporation", aka the "Galter Products Company") of Chicago from 1939 to 1950. The Spartus was marketed under different names including the "Regal Flash Master", "Falcon Press Flash", and the "Galter Press Flash".
The body of the camera is made out of a thin, molded bakelite, and features a built-in flash reflector, giving the camera its unusual shape. From what I can gather, the Spartus was one of the first cameras to have a built-in flash reflector, predating the popular Kodak Brownie Starflash by almost two decades. The controls are fairly standard for a box camera of the era. On the right side of the camera is a shutter leaver, and on the left is a lever that allows the photographer to select either "Time" or "Bulb". The Spartus would have originally used 120 rollfilm and required No. 40 sized flashbulbs.
Chick here to see the instruction manual for the Spartus Press Flash:
Spartus Press Flash
This is he "Spartus Press Flash". It is a bakelite, box-type camera produced by the Utility Manufacturing Company (later renamed the "Spartus Camera Corporation", aka the "Galter Products Company") of Chicago from 1939 to 1950. The Spartus was marketed under different names including the "Regal Flash Master", "Falcon Press Flash", and the "Galter Press Flash".
The body of the camera is made out of a thin, molded bakelite, and features a built-in flash reflector, giving the camera its unusual shape. From what I can gather, the Spartus was one of the first cameras to have a built-in flash reflector, predating the popular Kodak Brownie Starflash by almost two decades. The controls are fairly standard for a box camera of the era. On the right side of the camera is a shutter leaver, and on the left is a lever that allows the photographer to select either "Time" or "Bulb". The Spartus would have originally used 120 rollfilm and required No. 40 sized flashbulbs.
Chick here to see the instruction manual for the Spartus Press Flash: