G. Gennert, Rochester, New York, NY
Montauk Queen Camera
Catalogue of Photographic Apparatus and Supplies
No. 59, G. Gennert
(New York, NY),
c. 1909,
p. 26
Sears Catalog
1908, p. 262 (as Conley No. 1)
Date Introduced: - ;
Years Manufactured: c. 1909
Construction: front and rear focus
via rack and pinion (two gear tracks on top of base rails);
double swing; reversing by removable back; three-piece lens board;
Materials: mahogany wood body; cherry base;
black keratol (leatherette) or maroon leather
bellows; nickeled hardware
Sizes Offered: 5x7;
6 ½x8 ½; 8x10
Notes: The Gennert
Montauk Queen is nearly identical to the
Conley Camera
Co. No. 1 Conley View. Starting about 1903, Gennert
stopped manufacturing their own cameras and purchased cameras from other
manufacturers for resale, including the
Seneca
Improved View (as the
Gennert
Seneca Improved View) and the
Seneca
Competitor (as the
Gennert New
York View). About 1908, they also re-sold Gundlach and
Conley models. It is not known whether such cameras bear a Gennert
label. Note the oblique gears on the rack and pinion focus, a
feature unique to Conley.
References:
Catalogue of Photographic Apparatus and Supplies
No. 59, G. Gennert
(New York, NY), c. 1909,
p. 26
