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    Huge Wooden Camera - R. R. Robertson of Chicago

    Hello All,
    I am a new member, this is my first post. Can anyone tell me a little more about this camera? Thank you very much for any assistance... I am going to try to add a picture:

    http://i822.photobucket.com/albums/z...y/IMG_0716.jpg

    http://i822.photobucket.com/albums/z...y/IMG_0718.jpg

    http://i822.photobucket.com/albums/z...y/IMG_0724.jpg

    http://i822.photobucket.com/albums/z...y/IMG_0715.jpg

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    Re: Huge Wooden Camera - R. R. Robertson of Chicago

    Sory, the links don't work.......

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    Re: Huge Wooden Camera - R. R. Robertson of Chicago

    hi,

    the links worked for me.

    where are you located? the stand appears to be a century stand...hard to say for sure. not sure about the camera. a deardorff copy maybe? similar knobs.

    sorry i can not help more.
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    Re: Huge Wooden Camera - R. R. Robertson of Chicago

    Links don't work for me, but then I probably don't know what kind of camera it is either.
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    Re: Huge Wooden Camera - R. R. Robertson of Chicago

    the same link was posted on photonet .. with images
    i wasn't able to figure out what camera it was,
    maybe a stat camera, it was in a printing house, right ?

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    Robertson made stat cameras but this could be restored to be a lovely old portrait camera. The back looks like it takes available 11X14 film holders. Everything is crooked and you can see wood pulled apart at the lower dovetail indicating something fell on it some time or it was dropped. The Graf lens is an oddity but not valuable. It seems to be a graf copy of the more common Goerz Artar. The stand looks to be an Ansco. Getting the stand with the camera is a BIG plus. The bellows are home made and sort of laughable but perhaps light tight. Looks like they made them out of curtain rods and the old couch cover.

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    Re: Huge Wooden Camera - R. R. Robertson of Chicago

    With patience you could restore this camera to a working studio camera for shure.
    Just get it into your home !
    New bellows, maybe a diferent lens........

    Shipping would be the main issue I guess.

    How much is the seller asking for it with everything ?

    Peter

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    Re: Huge Wooden Camera - R. R. Robertson of Chicago

    $800. Camera is in Buffalo, NY.

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    Re: Huge Wooden Camera - R. R. Robertson of Chicago

    They are paying $800 to take it away?
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