Vintage AGFA Billy Clack Camera No. 51 ‘ART DECO’ 4.5X6cm on 120 Roll Film

Description

AGFA BILLY CLACK NR.51 ‘ART DECO’ 4.5X6CM ON 120 ROLL FILM CAMERA.
The
Art Deco style
Billy Clack Camera
was manufactured by the
AGFA
company from about 1934 to 1940. It was a strut folding
camera
with the lens and shutter built into the front standard.
This camera dates between 1934 AND 1938 with the
Leatherette Covering.
The Billy-Clack No. 51 (or Speedex No. 51) takes sixteen 4.5×6 cm pictures on 120 film. It has an f/8.8 Igenar lens ('Jgenar'; the name probably refers to Agfa's being part of IG Farben), a periscopic doublet lens with three aperture settings (f/8.8, f/11 and f/16, which are achieved by switching between fixed-size apertures, not with an iris). It has a simple 'I' and 'B' shutter, brilliant finders for landscape and portrait orientation, and a built-in yellow filter. Like many folders of its age, it has a winding key, not a knob, and it has two red windows, with a swiveling cover.
Early examples have conventional leatherette covering.  Cameras made from 1938 onward are covered with
Robusit
herringbone-textured covering.