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Product Description : 1954 Rare Meopta Admira Movie Cine Camera Enamel Pin
The pins on sale here are originals from former Czechoslovakia
The pins photographed are the acual ones you are purchasing,
not just a stock photo. They are in excellent condition and fully described below.
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Meopta were formed in Prerov, Czechoslovakia in 1933 under the name Optotechnica and in 1946 they were nationalised by the socialist government of the time becoming Meopta.
Meopta would go on to produce a large variety of optical products; photo enlargers, lenses, military scopes, cameras and stereo Viewmasters
Meopta were a very large company in the 1950s producing optical products for the whole of the Warsaw pact military. They were the only Eastern European company making cinema projectors so Meopta projectors could be found in every cinema in the region around this time.
They manufactured a wide range of stereo optical products such as the twin lens (TLR) cameras called Flexaret and Stereo Viewmasters similar to those produced in the USA called Meoskop.
Meopta are still around today, though on a much smaller scale to that of the 1960's and 1970's. They supply mainly to the military and have several large contracts with European governments.
The pin on sale here is a 1954 advertising pin for the newly launched Admira Cine camera. The admira was Meopta's first post war movie camera, the last being the OP-8 made in 1939. It could take 2 x 8mm film reels and could create 12-48 pictures per second. The pin is very finely detailed, you can even make out the red and blue lenses. The pin is in excellent condition, it is a stick pin approx 2cm high. You should be able to see the meopta logo below in silver.
Meopta pins seem much scarcer than the actual equipment these days. Maybe people felt they should hold onto their cameras and viewmasters, but the pins were just pins and were all lost over the years.
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