[Rarebooks] FA: LAW: Blackstone Legal Classics & Kodak vs. Scovill signed depositions

[Robinson Street Books]

Ah, yes, Property tax time auction.  A few from our Law catalogue.

Commentaries on the Laws of England Blackstone 4 volume Legal Classics

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Eastman Kodak Company vs. The Anthony & Scovill Company
Signed depositions Patent c1903 Photography  

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Kodak vs. Scovill original depositions 1902, 1903 Documents Signed: Eastman Kodak Company vs. The Anthony & Scovill Company dated 1902, 1903 Depositions of: Thomas H. Blair, Frederick H. Kelley, Parker B. Cady etc.. approx 500 leaves, carbons mostly, with few fair copies of letters, as exhibits, many corrections, additions in pencil & pen. Signed and notorized, in three places, with notarial seal embossed in paper. The original signatures include Thomas H. Blair, Frederick H. Kelley and Parker B. Cady. Long legal sheets laid into two cloth binders, pages unbound. Early pages have some chipping at bottom, holes where cord had held them together at top. 
Additional 92 pages of period reproductions and patent descriptions of Eastman Kodak and other Camera related patents. Original patent records are reproduced by "photo lithography". 

12 pages of reproduced drawings as exhibits marked "Defendent's exhibit Smith memorandum". 

Over 500 leaves, mostly carbons, marked "Extra copy Parker B. Cady" in an unknown hand. 

Thomas H. Blair was an early photographer, inventor, and entrepreneur who competed with Kodak, and the company he developed became a division of Kodak. 

Lawyers: J.J. Kennedy represented Kodak. Edward C. Davidson represented Anthony & Scovill. 

The first 281 leaves include through direct and cross examination a history of the development of: "Daylight Loading Cartridge", "Kameret", "Bullseye", "Hawkeye Camera", "Petite Cameras". Business dealings and business interaction between "Blair Camera Company", "Eastman Kodak Company", and other early Camera companies through the testimony of Thomas H. Blair. Dates of development, manufacture, sales. 

Parker B. Cady was an inventor with patents for "Flexible Photographic film". 

Frederick H. Kelley was an inventor who received a patent for "integrating f-stop into photographic shutters". 

An extremely interesting look into the development of amateur photography in the later part of the 19th Century. Includes information about the manufacture of late 19th Century cameras. Many pages have signature of "George", in margins, in an unknown hand. Other than the last exhibit, a fair copy of an agreement, signed in type by George Eastman authorizing travel expenses, there's no indication that George Eastman was present at any of the sessions of the depositions, in NYC or Boston. 




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