Wirgin folder, Camera Specialty Co., Dec 47 PopPho pg. 12
From Popular Photography (US magazine) December 1947 (Vol. 21, No. 6) page 12.
This camera seems to have originated as the Vokar B folder from "Electronic Products Manufacturing Co." of Ann Arbor, Michigan. But by this date, EPM had moved to Dexter, Michigan, and changed the company name to Vokar.
The connection between Vokar and Max Wirgin's Camera Specialty Co. is unclear. This model does have a more desirable Wollensak lens and shutter than what the Vokar B offered.
The camera pictured here seems to be a twin of the Voigt camera. This ad does not use the name
Wirgin Deluxe but it seems to precede that model.
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Wirgin folder, Camera Specialty Co., Dec 47 PopPho pg. 12
From Popular Photography (US magazine) December 1947 (Vol. 21, No. 6) page 12.
This camera seems to have originated as the Vokar B folder from "Electronic Products Manufacturing Co." of Ann Arbor, Michigan. But by this date, EPM had moved to Dexter, Michigan, and changed the company name to Vokar.
The connection between Vokar and Max Wirgin's Camera Specialty Co. is unclear. This model does have a more desirable Wollensak lens and shutter than what the Vokar B offered.
The camera pictured here seems to be a twin of the Voigt camera. This ad does not use the name
Wirgin Deluxe but it seems to precede that model.
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They are also in public domain in the European Union, where the "shorter term" rule applies to foreign works, and foreign documents which are already in public domain in their home country are not further protected.[2]
The advertising material inserted by a company in a magazine usually does not have a copyright notice. It is sincerely believed by the Camera-wiki members who discussed this question that the copyright notice which might appear on the magazine itself, on behalf of its publisher, does not extend to the advertisements, on which the publishing company owns no right and which would be the property of the advertising company if it wanted to claim its rights.
[1] Copyright Term and the Public Domain in the United States, 1 January 2007, by Peter B. Hirtle.
Further reading on US copyright law: Circular 1:Copyright Basics (1.1Mb PDF) from United States Copyright office