Chapter 14 - Taiyodo Koki Beauty Canter 35
The focus dial distance scale markings on the f/2.8 change somewhere within the 90000 serial numbers.
Early f/2.8 with release catch on top of the rewind knob, which traps the rewind-crank- arm in its folded position (from 80000 to 118531).
Serial Numbers
f/1.9 Canter (22 examples in a range of 3,702): 1905, 1967, 2422, 2443, 2636, 3133, 3854, 3935, 3979, 4060, 4068, 4084, 4176, 4234, 4336, 4673, 4891, 5294, 5346, 5435, 5581, 5606
f/2.8 Canter with rewind crank arm release catch:
80166, 80331, 80634, 81314, 81393, 81531, 81735, 81902, 82086, 82127, 82218, 82363, 82921, 82333, 82730, 83106, 83134, 83147, 83216, 83313, 84072, 84168, 84290, 84681, 84706, 85290, 85838, 85929, 85987, 86057, 86213, 86252, 86367, 86385, 86524, 87495, 87596, 87777, 88353, 88621, 88712, 89057, 89547, 89704, 89734, 89547, 89550, 90082, 90154, 90228, 90399, 90658, 91104, 91156, 95003, 95106, 95232, 95483, 95899, 96052, 96238, 96500, 96747, 97049, 97469, 97474, 97484, 97688, 97781, 97938, 98161, 98830, 98893, 99246, 99528, 99639, 100090, 100147, 100264, 100355, 100453, 100494, 100499, 100615, 100704, 100706, 101339, 101604, 101732, 102031, 102156, 102319, 102469, 102473, 103266, 103276, 103279, 103306, 103357, 103403, 104100, 104111, 104184, 104224, 104472, 104593, 104685, 104878, 104924, 106009, 106147, 106154, 106525, 106941, 107210, 107301, 107695, 107799, 107954, 107971, 108033, 108294, 108368, 108694, 108770, 108792, 109398, 109442, 109448, 109687, 109731, 109857, 109869, 109949, 109985, 110131, 110687, 110864, 111049, 111234, 111788, 115511, 118531 (135 examples in a range of 38,366)
f/2.8 Canter without release catch:
107301, 110697, 110984, 111950, 112046, 112100, 112749, 112780, 112791, 112805, 112925, 113086, 113314, 113387, 113565, 113776, 113795, 113851, 113936, 114071, 114284, 114400, 114579, 114761, 114764, 114867, 115258, 115389, 115879, 115888, 115945, 116038, 116415, 116509, 116510, 116613, 116854, 117040, 117105, 117118, 117241, 117300, 118269, 118442, 118795, 119032, 119051, 119244, 119259 (46 examples in a range of 11,959)
Advertisement from a January 1959 edition of the Miami Herald.
1959 advertisement in Pacific Island Monthly.
Link to Beauty Canter 35 review in the July 1958 edition of Modern Photography.(in PDF format and opens in a new window).
Link to f/1.9 Beauty Canter 35 instruction manual at Butkus.
Article about the Canter referenced in Chapter 3a (page 37) and Chapter 15 at Footnote 57 -
Army Times 1957-03-23: Vol 17 Iss 33 : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
Points of difference between the f/1.9 and f/2.8
Front, back, top & bottom of the f/1.9 Canter 35.
Beauty Canter 35 box.
Japanese language leaflet for the Canter 35. Click to enlarge (unfortunately the characters are too small to extract & translate).
Full page advert of unknown date from an unidentified publication for the f/2.8 Canter 35. Click to enlarge.
Advertisement from a 1958 edition of Modern Photography.
Advertisement from the April until August 1957 editions of the Japan Times