What's this attachment? Help identify.

[Marc_Andrew]

This was in a lot I recently purchased. Can anyone identify?

The drawer opening has space for a 5x7. The box has pins for attachment.


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[John Layton]

Hmmm...looks useful! Negative stage and diffuser for an old 5x7 enlarger? Just add bellows and focus track/lens plate - mount on a vertical column and add a light source...and you'd be in business! Oh yeah - don't forget a lens!

Edit: The presence of springs indicates that this could also be the basis for a horizontal enlarger...cool!

[consummate_fritterer]

Part of the copy camera you're selling?

[Marc_Andrew]

That's sort of what I was thinking John. Thanks!

[Marc_Andrew]

Not part of the copy camera I listed. Different wood/stain and it doesn't fit.


Part of the copy camera you're selling?

[MrB01]

Not part of the copy camera I listed. Different wood/stain and it doesn't fit.

It looks like a contact printer, kind a like this one:
https://www.gmcamera.com/eastman-kodak-contact-printer-possibly-home-made-fits-4x4-negatives-vintage.html

[Jody_S]

At one point Kodak made an 8x10 enlarger part that worked by attaching to a camera body, using available light from a partially-blacked window. This looks like the enlarger back, either the Kodak (1883-5 or so) or a later copy.

This was one of Mr. Eastman's personal inventions, that he may have cobbled together in his garden shed workshop before contracting them out to another maker.