Eric, I have a small keyhole slot camera in my collection. It is also unnamed. I tried your website, but can you give me a number or some defining way to find...
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JCR Cameras
jcr_cameras...
Jul 22, 2009 3:07 pm
Hi Eric, How do I find the most recent pictures in your excellent web site so that I can view this camera? Best Wishes, John From: woodandbrass@yahoogroups.com...
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eric evans
ericevans2000
Jul 22, 2009 3:11 pm
Hi Fred, I'm sorry, I gave out confusing signals. The one I am asking about is not yet on my web site, I have to arrange with my web designer to do that when...
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eric evans
ericevans2000
Jul 22, 2009 3:14 pm
Hi John, Sorry, I didn't make it clear that this camera is not yet on my site, but is in my "album" on this current site, top left>Photos. Regards and thanks...
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Fred /Maren Friedman
marenfred1
Jul 22, 2009 5:15 pm
Hello Eric, I am sorry that I can't help with ID on this one. It is nothing at all like the keyhole slot camera in my collection, which uses keyhole slots to...
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eric evans
ericevans2000
Jul 23, 2009 8:34 am
Fred, Thanks for your cooperation and interest. This camera does use the two keyhole slots as support for the lens panel, my pictures just don't adequately...
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Fred /Maren Friedman
marenfred1
Jul 23, 2009 12:04 pm
Oh Eric, I agree with you about not liking cameras to be orphans without a name. I have a few that I've been trying for years to ID, without success. Just part...
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rob_tooley
Jul 25, 2009 2:07 pm
Eric, I've uploaded an advert (in your photo album) from the 1898 BJA which shows a camera from Sharp & Hitchmough, its a fair match to your unnamed camera....
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Fred /Maren Friedman
marenfred1
Jul 25, 2009 3:42 pm
Nice spotting, Rob, I remember our meeting in Richmond fondly. I hope to get to Photographica in 2010. Perhaps we can meet again. Fred...
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Marcel Safier
brisphoto
Jul 25, 2009 9:45 pm
Yes good detective work Rob! The base board is different, Eric's having a turntable style rather than a solid base and there is a brass plate for the...
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Fred /Maren Friedman
marenfred1
Jul 26, 2009 3:47 am
Marcel, In terms of what I see of British cameras here in the U.S. and on the occasional trip to Europe, I would say 15% is nearer the mark. I don't see nearly...
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eric evans
ericevans2000
Jul 26, 2009 9:24 am
Rob,Fred, Marcel, Thanks for your interest and Rob for taking the trouble to post a picture; it's appreciated. I early on set myself the impossible task of...
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rob_tooley
Jul 26, 2009 9:43 am
Marcel, you are right about the difference in features, over a short period they included woodcuts having different features, if you included bits of each you...
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eric evans
ericevans2000
Jul 26, 2009 1:25 pm
Rob, Your mention of the turntable as an optional extra prompts me to remember that in one case, and that is just one that I happen to know about, the...
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eric evans
ericevans2000
Jul 26, 2009 1:26 pm
Rob, Your mention of the turntable as an optional extra prompts me to remember that in one case, and that is just one that I happen to know about, the...
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Marcel Safier
brisphoto
Aug 11, 2009 10:46 pm
John Thanks for sharing this. It would make a nice display item in any camera collection if you have the room! I have several similar studio stand cameras, one...
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JCR Cameras
jcr_cameras...
Aug 11, 2009 11:11 pm
Hi Marcel, I too have a Century studio camera, in half plate format. When I got it about thirty years ago the bellows were perished but I had new bellows made ...
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Dave Terwilliger
wegottallama
Aug 11, 2009 11:43 pm
Hi - I am looking for a Century Camera - see my photos - Charles Sylvester Terwilliger. Do you have any photos? I'm in the USA. Dave T....
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Scott B.
silver_recol...
Aug 13, 2009 3:17 am
I was contacted by a person asking for information about his camera. He sent a photo which I've posted to the group photo section. Does anyone have...
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dcolucci@...
ponypremo
Aug 13, 2009 1:26 pm
As I understand it from Federal Court records ( see below ), Blair was an agent for the American Camera Co. ( a selling entity ) and the American Camera...
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Scott B.
silver_recol...
Aug 14, 2009 1:23 am
Excellent. Thank you Dan for locating that. I'll read it over. Any idea what model this is and whether a R.M.&W. Co. shutter would be original? This isn't...
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Rob Niederman
f64imager
Aug 14, 2009 2:29 am
Scott ... I'm not sure of the exact model, but several variations exist. For example, Jas. Smith (Chicago) sold a version called "The American" in 1898. It had...
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Scott B
silver_recol...
Aug 14, 2009 9:12 pm
Hi Rob, I'd already checked out your Alta camera when I searched the Web for RM&W Co., but thanks for mentioning it. I like your example. When I saw the...
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Ralph & Bobbi London
lndncam
Aug 15, 2009 3:24 pm
Bobbi and I recently toured Norway for a week on our own. Then we joined a two-week bus tour in Helsinki to see Russia, Belarus, Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia...
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Fred /Maren Friedman
marenfred1
Aug 15, 2009 4:12 pm
Welcome home, Ralph & thanks for the update. Sounds like a great trip. Best to you both, Fred Friedman ps. I won't make the Rochester symposium since I will be...
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dcolucci@...
ponypremo
Aug 15, 2009 9:33 pm
Scott I didn't see the photo - please resend. thanks Dan _www.antiquecameras.net_ (http://www.antiquecameras.net/) . . In a message dated 8/13/2009 9:24:14...
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JCR Cameras
jcr_cameras...
Aug 15, 2009 11:20 pm
Hi Ralph and Bobbi, A bit more information here on the Preus Fotomuseum at this link. http://www.museumsnett.no/fotografimuseum/english/om_preus_top.php Best...
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Marcel Safier
brisphoto
Aug 16, 2009 1:07 am
Hi Yes thanks for the update Ralph. I also intend making my way from Australia to attend my first PhotoHistory symposium while on holidays. I hope to meet some...
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Ralph & Bobbi London
lndncam
Aug 16, 2009 1:51 am
John, Thanks for the reminder about the Preus Museum which is about an hour's drive from Oslo. Frankly, it never entered our trip planning. Everything I...
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Fred /Maren Friedman
marenfred1
Aug 16, 2009 2:27 am
Marcel, I hope to attend the Boston Show on the Saturday. I will be nosing around the tables and will listen for a down under accent. Hope we can meet. Fred...
