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One of a Kind Kodak Custom Double Height Rolling Camera Stand: Total height is six feet, six inches. We believe that, in its day, this 11x14 camera stand was one of a kind, custom made to reach twice as high as any moveable camera stand. The brass sign it bears says that it's a No. 2A Semi-Centennial made by Kodak. That's correct for the bottom half. But it looks as though either Eastman Kodak or a local craftsman was able to take a second 2A stand and use its post, containing the track, and mend it perfectly with the bottom half to allow the photographer to raise a 11x14 view camera to heights never done before. Back in the day, his or her fellow photographers had to be jealous. If Kodak did do the work, we believe it would have put a new design number on its brass plate. In the many years it's been in our studio, no one has ever seen another one. Bid on this lot and be the owner of this unique, but classic stand, with a newly installed felt cover on the platform. There is the best restorer of these camera stands locally here in Ohio, and we can give you their information if you win this lot. This lot requires third party shipping.