English made Coronet 4-4 mark II, undoubtably the vilest camera I have ever smelt. The Coronet Camera Co. operated out of Birmingham and concentrated upon the cheapest end of the market, they are probably best known for their coloured Coronet Midget range of cameras that have, inexplicably, become spectacularly collectable. These things have a disgusting plastic smell of their very own, an early polymer that remains slightly flexible. Equaled, indeed surpassed, only by the plastic case it comes with, truly revolting - I love it! The date for this camera was established, gratefully I add, by a viewer of this website finding one that had been issued as a prize, it came in the original box along with the date.

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Body No. The Coronet shuns such pretentious niceties.
Shutter, Simple rotary blade affair, released by nasty plastic trigger.
Lens, Very nearly transparent.

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