Eastman Kodak
No. 4 Folding Pocket Kodak, 1907-1915

You would have needed a pretty big pocket to tuck this folding rollfilm camera away...the No. 4 FPK took a 4 x 5 inch exposure on size 123 rollfilm. It was the largest of the popular 'Folding Pocket Kodak' models which were first offered in 1898.

The No. 4 was offered in a full 20 different lens and shutter combination over its lifespan; this model is one of the more basic versions, sporting a Rapid Rectilinear lens and simple TBI (F.P.K. Automatic) shutter. The combination of lens/shutter, along with the serial number, 546, indicates that this was an early production model, probably made in the latter half of 1907.

Nickel plating,  bright red leather bellows, and rosewood inserts on the drop bed are highly representative of cameras of the period - Kodak changed to black leather bellows not long after this camera was made. They did not return to colored-bellows Pocket Cameras for another 10 years or so.


A 1910s snapshot of a girl holding a Folding Pocket Kodak camera. This model may be the No. 3A, just smaller than the No. 4.

Click here to see the Folding Pocket Kodak of 1898 | Click here to see a No. 1A Folding Pocket Kodak

Click here to see the No. 2A Folding Pocket Brownie Camera

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