I picked up a wood View camera from an estate sale. The camera is 5x7 format, wood, has red bellows, and has no manufacturer's plate on it. The background on the estate owner. He was WWII US Army and had 2 Speed Graphics, so I'm assuming that he was likely an Army photographer. I'm also guessing that he was stationed in Japan post-war where he may have picked up the 5x7. The red bellows should narrow the possibilities, but the last clue is the film holders. They are also wood and don't have the usual dark slides, instead, they have tambour dark slides (think roll-top desks). The dark slides pull to the top and just drape over the back of the camera. They do not come out of the holders completely. I've never seen this on a camera before and hope that this oddity will finally assist in identifying the manufacturer of this camera.
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