Kodak Anastigmant 130mm

[Changeling1]

This is a lens from 1913 with a "ball-bearing shutter" that the seller said was in "excellent condition". Does anyone know anything about this lens?
Sorry for the poor quality jpg.

 

[Jeremy]

Looks like a lens off of a Kodak folder. I've got one of those suckers here awaiting photographication and ad listing here on Apug

 

[Jim Jones]

It looks like the four group four element Dialite formula that evolved into the longer Ektar f/7.7 203 mm that was produced perhaps into the 1950s. The 130mm focal length suggests use on something close to 3.25 x 4.25 coverage. It is a good design for its day, and better than some of its contemporaries for close-up work. The uncoated four group design may be a bit more prone to flare than the three group Tessar that eventually displaced it.

 

[DannL]

Most likely taken from an Eastman Kodak Autographic. Possibly an Autographic Junior or similar model. I have three similar shutters with the 170mm FL lens elements. They all came from a No. 3 Model C's. If you find a similar shutter with the Bausch & Lomb Rapid Rectilinear lens set (originating from a No.3 Model A camera), and then remove half the elements (front or back but not both), you end up with a really inexpensive 8x10 lens and shutter. That's how my homemade 8x10 is configured. I had "no luck" getting an Anastigmat lens to do that trick.

 

[Murray@uptowngallery]

The Rapid Rectilinear is symmetrical (has two identical achromats), so is convertible. If you take the front one off, you have the preferred stop-in-front-of meniscus-achromat configuration, but twice the f.l. and new f-#.

According to some references 'anastigmat' types can be 3 or more element, well-corrected. Some evolved into or were similar to Tessar's, and thus can't play without their proper combined halves, which are not at all symmetrical...and don't work standalone (the ones I've tried).