Old Brass Lensboards and Flanges

[edkirkpatrick]

These boards and flanges were in a box lot I bought years ago and I plan to sell them. I have no idea what camera or lens they may go to or what they are worth. It is important to me that they have a good home.
If anyone can help me with the fair valuation of these items and thier descriptions, I would be very appreciative.

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# 1 74mm x 99mm (2 7/8 x 3 7/8) ID 40 mm, OD 57mm Fine thread

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# 2 108mm x 108mm (4 1/4 x 4 1/4) ID 49mm OD 68mm Fine thread

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# 3 6" x 6" ID 33mm OD 47mm Eastman Kodak board Fine thread

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# 4 6 7/8" x 6 7/8" ID 70mm OD 104 MM Fine thread

Continued in the next post... Thanks, Ed
edkirkpatrick at verizon dot net

[edkirkpatrick]

Continued from the first post above. Thanks, ed

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# 5 6 5/8" x 6 5/8" ID 170mm

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# 6 9" x 9" ID 111mm OD 144 Course thread

[goamules]

It's nice to try to match up a flange to a lens, but very, very uncommon. The thread types varied considerably in the period, and I've seldom, actually never, been able to get a match over the internet or mail. The only way is if a flange is a patent type and marked. Pretty uncommon, but TTH are standardized. So the procedure is to have a pile of flanges, and a table of lenses, and try each and every combination. Doing that one at a time over the Internet is very prone to failure.

So you have to price them very cheaply since there is a slim chance of them working. Or because there will be a lot of time wasted in tryouts for both the seller and buyer.

[Jon Shiu]

I think no. 3 is for a Betax No. 2 shutter, which is not a common shutter.

Jon

[edkirkpatrick]

Jon, Nice work on your website. I love the Lower Falls at Yosemite

[Amedeus]

Like Garrett stated, matching up lenses and flanges is tedious and often wrought with error.

This said, I'm interested in #6. This may fit one of my Busch lenses, going from memory I was looking for 111mm and not so fine thread FWIW. I would be interested for that one if/when for sale.

[Tim Meisburger]

I'm always looking. Unfortunately none of these are close to my needs. There is a thread in the for sale section titled "lens flange exchange" where you can see what other people are looking for.

Cheers, Tim

[edkirkpatrick]

Garrett,
I can paypal you for the $20 plus $5 postage and send the board to you if that's OK.
Send me your email and address and I will get that taken care of.
Ed

[Steven Tribe]

This said, I'm interested in #6. This may fit one of my Busch lenses, going from memory I was looking for 111mm and not so fine thread FWIW. I would be interested for that one if/when for sale.

111mm is better known as 4 3/8" so I doubt it is for a German lens.