WHAT happened to this shutter?

[jnantz]

Since I am sure plain ol' dropped lenses are a dime a dozen to richard (he has to have seen more then a few), I'd expect this one has to be something more 'original' to warrant the interest.

but sometimes it is the most obvious thing that people don't think about ...

[Steve Goldstein]

Hmm...glass is OK, had to be cleaned. Could our poor unfortunate photographer have put his wet photovest, containing a couple of board-mounted lenses, into the dryer?

[John Bowen]

John you were 20 feet behind me when the photo was taken.

I knew that

[John Bowen]

Richard,

This is easily a disqualification! The White Mountains are in New Hampshire and the Green Mountains are in Vermont.

I'd just send him one of those "Brake for Moose - It could save your life" bumper stickers as consolation prize.

VT/NH.....it's all the same to a New Yorker who relocated to VA

[John Bowen]

Richard,

Is this that famous lens that was dropped in salt water causing corrosion and broken when the owner over torqued it?

[Gem Singer]

Enlarged photo showed signs of rust, as well as deformation of the aperture ring. Shutter was probably immersed in water.

My revised evaluation is that the camera bag containing the shuttered lenses, mounted on lens boards, was accidentally dropped into the river shown in the second photo.

[John Bowen]

OK a new guess.....

This is the lens mounted on the Zone VI camera that you and Bruce repeatedly knocked over while making the Camera Repair in the Field with Richard Ritter DVD...

On second thought, your OP stated the lens was not attached to a camera, so this wild ass guess is wrong :-(

[Brian Stein]

Two shutters: bag with lenses in it, car trunk closed thinking there was clearance, but alas, the shearing of metal.....

[Sevo]

As it ought to be a odd one, my guess would be "dropped into water and frozen".

[RichardRitter]

One day when I was working at Zone VI someone from the other side of the country called and asked where in Maine is Vermont.