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!
Part of the copy camera you're selling?
That's sort of what I was thinking John. Thanks!
It looks like a contact printer, kind a like this one:
https://www.gmcamera.com/eastman-kod...s-vintage.html
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.
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