The popular and aptly-named Ansco Panda is a TLR-style box camera that takes 620 film. Many sources (on the web) say the Panda is made of bakelite, but I'm 99.9% certain it's not.
The word most often used to describe the Panda is "cute", and with good reason. :o)
It's also described as Ansco's answer to the Kodak Baby Brownie, and I'd say it was a damn good move on Ansco's part; the Panda enjoyed a long production run (c1939-50).
This example has a stamp inside that says 7-48. If it's a date stamp, that would make it 60 years old!
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