Summary
Advertising card for a Kodak Brownie Starlet Camera, costing £1.19.6 or $3.95, circa 1966. The ticket is white, yellow, black and red, and is unused.
The Brownie Starlet was introduced globally in 1957 and manufactured in Australia in 1958. The ticket shows prices in both pounds and dollars, suggesting it was used around the time that decimal currency was introduced to Australia in 1966.
This is part of the Kodak collection of products, promotional materials, photographs and working life artefacts collected from Kodak Australasia in 2005, when the Melbourne manufacturing plant at Coburg closed down.
Kodak manufactured and distributed a wide range of photographic products to Australasia, such as film, paper, chemicals, cameras and miscellaneous equipment. Its client base included amateur and professional photographers, as well as specialist medical and graphic art professionals who used photography, x-ray and other imaging techniques.
Physical Description
Small colour printed price ticket. White, red and yellow background with red and black text.
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Acquisition Information
Donation from Kodak (Australasia) Pty Ltd, Ms. Kate Metcalf - Kodak (Australasia) Pty Ltd, 2005
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Acknowledgement
Courtesy of Kodak (Australasia) Pty Ltd.
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Manufacturer
Kodak (Australasia) Pty Ltd, Australia, 1966
The Brownie Starlet was introduced globally in 1957 but was first made in Australia in 1958. See the details on dates in Kodakery, No. 82, September 1977, p3. It is unclear when the Starlet stopped being made, although it has been stated to be 1960. HT 17392, Camera - Kodak Australasia, Brownie Starlet Outfit was made in 1960. However, Australian television commercials for the Starlet were made in 1962 and the dual currency shown on some price tickets eg HT 20793 suggests that the Starlet may have still been sold in 1966 when decimal currency was introduced in Australia. -
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Front, printed, red and black ink: "The happiest gift of all! / BROWNIE Starlet / CAMERA / £1/19/6 ($3.95) / Case...16/9 (1.68) / Flasholder ... 20/- ($2.00)"
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Keywords
Advertising, Marketing, Sales, Retailing, Labelling, Display Signage, Photography, Cameras, Photographic Flash Attachments, Point of Sale, Decimal Conversion
