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GOLDSTEIN - GOLDY Caves Sainte Marguerite (c.1950)

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Advertising Goldy "Caves Ste Marguerite" - c.1950


Like the Week-End, Champion, Superas, Rally, Riviera, Sporting..., the GOLDY Caves Sainte Marguerite comes from the famous "Goldy".

From the regular model it kept the cardboard body and the guillotine shutter. This one still has only two possible speeds : Instant and pause B.

Other similarities : the film advance control window is sealed with a simple red disk and the film advance key is in metal.

On the other hand, the handle has been replaced with the same one as the "Week-end" model. It is no more located diagonally across the top side like with the regular "Goldy" but in the axis of the camera.

The oblong plate which ornates the shutter release is also the same as the "Week end". 

It was an advertising camera, made for a famous wine merchant.

les Caves Sainte Marguerite

How describe the friend to whom I bought this camera, which is by the way quite uncommon ? 
Well, let say that his quest for the holy Grail is... the box !

Raisoned collector, he knows the interest to stay focused onto one single category of cameras.

Able to align on 4 m² a true wall of these small square-cameras , Thierry will explain - with a great sense of humour and kindness - that the large box's family offers an unsuspected variety of models.

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