Thanks, Sal.
Re 5x7, long ago the now-defunct dealer "The F Stops Here" listed for sale second-hand a one-off "5x7 Compact II clone", described as follows: "This is a custom built 5x7 Field using the Phillips Compact II design and much hardware from Phillips." Although I remember the camera and the listing from back then, no, I didn't actually remember the wording - amazingly, I was able to dig up the listing in the Wayback Machine:
https://web.archive.org/web/20000531...llipsused.html
I vaguely remember asking Jon Simich about it at the time - pretty sure it wasn't Chuck Farmer that I talked to - and being told that Dick had supplied some parts but did not build the camera himself. Although the picture is gone, I remember it as having a natural wood finish rather than the black of the 8x10 Compact II's that Dick made.
I wonder what if any is the relationship between this camera and the 5x7 that you mention.
And a PS, since we've opened this "can": one-off 5x7 aside, to my knowledge Dick built and offered for general sale at least the following models:
4x5
8x10 Advantage
8x10 Compact
8x10 Compact II
8x10 Explorer (last production run was a version accepting Technika boards rather than the usual Sinar)
11x14 Compact
11x14 Explorer
7x17 Explorer
8x16
12x20
All of these were built and sold in batches - he did not maintain an ongoing inventory of completed cameras. For those models like the Compact II that had multiple production runs, there were often minor differences between the batches in hardware components such as knobs.
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