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The name Aoba Shōkai (アオバ商会) is found in the Japanese official price list dated November 1941, about the PA 0 (ピエイ0型).[1] It was certainly the name of a distributor.
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- ↑ "Kamera no kōtei kakaku kanpō happyō", November 1941, type 3, section 7B.
Bibliography[]
- "Kamera no kōtei kakaku kanpō happyō" (カメラの公定価格官報発表, Official announcement of the set prices of the cameras), November 1941. Extract of a table listing Japanese camera production and setting the retail prices, reproduced in "Bebī Semi Fāsuto 'Kore ha bebī wo nanotta semi-ki da'" (ベビーセミファースト"これはベビーを名乗ったセミ機だ", Baby Semi First, 'this is a Semi camera called Baby'), an article by Furukawa Yasuo (古川保男) in Camera Collectors' News no. 277 (July 2000). Nishinomiya: Camera Collectors News-sha. P. 27. Type 3, section 7B.