PILOT 6 Camera KW (Kamera Werkstatten) 1936-1938 Dresden Germany - $500 - (Kansas City, MO)
PILOT 6 Camera KW (Kamera Werkstatten) 1936-1938 Dresden Germanysold as it Fun reading The Pilot 6 is an SLR that was produced from 1936 to 1938 by Kamera Werkstätten Guthe & Thorsch, which in 1938 was sold to Charles A. Noble, who in turn changed the company's name to Praktica after the war. And then spent the next couple of years in the Gulag. "The Pilot 6 is an SLR that was produced from 1936 to 1938 by Kamera-Werkstätten Guthe & Thorsch", which in 1938 was sold to Charles A. Noble, who in turn changed the company's name to Praktica after the war. And then spent the next couple of years in the Gulag."Not quite true. After his acquisition, Noble renamed the Kamera Werkstaetten into "Kamera Werkstaetten Charles A. Noble". The Kamera Werkstaetten were nationalized in 1946 under the name "VEB Kamera-Werkstaetten Niedersedlitz, later "VEB Kamera-Werke Niedersedlitz" and were merged into "VEB Kamera- und Kinowerke Dresden" in 1959 which was renamend "VEB Pentacon" in 1964. Never has there been a company named Praktica.
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