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    Assistance Identifying Brass and Wood Camera ?

    I would appreciate any help I could get from the forum to identify the following camera.



    The only marking anywhere on the camera are actually on the lens - Hermagis 20881

    thanks in advance

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    Re: Assistance Identifying Brass and Wood Camera ?

    More views all around plus details and posting them as thumbnails that enlarge might be helpful.
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    Re: Assistance Identifying Brass and Wood Camera ?

    Thanks Lenser - here is what i can do at this point

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    back shot

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    Re: Assistance Identifying Brass and Wood Camera ?

    As my nephew would say, 'This is cool beans'. Hopefully someone will recognize this and be able to help you. I'll be going through some of my camera history books tonight to see if I can find out anything.
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    Re: Assistance Identifying Brass and Wood Camera ?

    It's going to be hard to tell I think, there's nothing particularly distinctive about it (except that it's very nice looking of course). There were lots of small camera makers around the turn of the 20th century until Eastman put them out of business or bought them up. This one could be from any of them or could even be home-made (which the absence of any markings at all might tend to indicate). But I'm not an expert on camera history, maybe someone else can identify it for you.
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    Re: Assistance Identifying Brass and Wood Camera ?

    It's a "nice one."

    I'm no expert on camera history, but design-wise it looks like it falls between the all-wood wet plate cameras of the mid 1800's and the more packable view cameras of the early 1900's. From the pictures it looks like only the back standard moves (with fine focus on the lens).

    Here's the camerapedia article on Hermagis : link

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