Wayne R. Scott
16-Mar-2008, 20:30
I attended a country auction in town 60 miles from home to look at the "Antique" portrait camera and about 30 antique cameras they had listed in the bill of sale.
I came home with a couple of brass lenses. One of them is marked Darlot Paris U Statzer and then on the other side of the water house slot, BF & C. It appears to be about an 8" focal length.
The other brass lens is marked Waterbury Lens, Scovill Mfg. Co., New York. No 41 C.
It has only the rear lens element with a black disk brazed inside the front lens barrel approximately .40 inches from the front end of the lens barrel. Two black disks with progressively smaller diameter holes in their centers are retained in front of the brazed one with a spring clip. I assume these disks were to function like waterhouse stops.
In addition I brought home the portrait camera which has a Wollensak Rapter 9 1/2" lens and is marked 241mm f4.5. It had 2 Packard No.6 synched shutters with it.
I am not having much luck looking up information on these brass lens.
Any help would be appreciated. I'll see if my son can use his digital contraption to post photos of the brass lens tomorrow night.
I also brought home a Leica IIIc with 50mm collapsible f2.0 Summitar, a Premo Pony No. 4 5x7 with a B&L lens and a 5x7 Elwood enlarger. I had fun but don't know if I got any real bargains or gems.
Wayne
I came home with a couple of brass lenses. One of them is marked Darlot Paris U Statzer and then on the other side of the water house slot, BF & C. It appears to be about an 8" focal length.
The other brass lens is marked Waterbury Lens, Scovill Mfg. Co., New York. No 41 C.
It has only the rear lens element with a black disk brazed inside the front lens barrel approximately .40 inches from the front end of the lens barrel. Two black disks with progressively smaller diameter holes in their centers are retained in front of the brazed one with a spring clip. I assume these disks were to function like waterhouse stops.
In addition I brought home the portrait camera which has a Wollensak Rapter 9 1/2" lens and is marked 241mm f4.5. It had 2 Packard No.6 synched shutters with it.
I am not having much luck looking up information on these brass lens.
Any help would be appreciated. I'll see if my son can use his digital contraption to post photos of the brass lens tomorrow night.
I also brought home a Leica IIIc with 50mm collapsible f2.0 Summitar, a Premo Pony No. 4 5x7 with a B&L lens and a 5x7 Elwood enlarger. I had fun but don't know if I got any real bargains or gems.
Wayne