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DennisT
Joined: 17 Jul 2011 Posts: 8 Location: E WA state
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Posted: Tue Jul 19, 2011 4:54 pm Post subject: Dug out two more Graphics. Date help please and question |
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Dug out two Graphics I've had a long time. Used the newer one recently, but with recent additional discoveries, (see other post), I have a greatly renewed interest.
Here are my old ones:
1. Speed Graphic I guess, it's not marked. 4x5 On inside of tip-out door, stencilled in small orange stamping is, "SC 1112A." This camera also has a Government i.d. plate, HEW, (Health, Education and Welfare?), so orange mark may be related?? Inside body, above lens board is nicely stamped into wood, "319935." I'm guessing that's the real serial number. Camera has old Graflex view finder, Kalart Sync. RF, Graflok back, (must have been updated with that), but no snap-open hood. FP shutter. Wooden lens board.
??????? date?
2. Speed Graphic, 4x5. s/n 857170. FP shutter, (fancier controls than camera above). Kalart Sync. RF. Graflok back. This is the one I use; I got it from County surplus here in WA state about 25 years ago.
Date?
Thanks,
Dennis in E WA state _________________ Dennis |
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45PSS
Joined: 28 Sep 2001 Posts: 4081 Location: Mid Peninsula, Ca.
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DennisT
Joined: 17 Jul 2011 Posts: 8 Location: E WA state
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Posted: Tue Jul 19, 2011 11:08 pm Post subject: Wow |
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45PSS: Thank you for the new information. I had visited two of the links you provided, but, not knowing my work camera was even a, "Pacemaker," the link for that manual is terriffic.
Thanks again,
Dennis _________________ Dennis |
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bruiser
Joined: 15 Oct 2006 Posts: 260 Location: Northern NSW Australia
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Posted: Fri Jul 22, 2011 1:14 pm Post subject: |
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Hi Dennis,
The 'SC 1112A' stamp on your 1943 camera is an Army Signal Corps acceptance stamp used during WWII.
Cheers,
Bruce
http://graflex.coffsbiz.com |
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DennisT
Joined: 17 Jul 2011 Posts: 8 Location: E WA state
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Posted: Fri Jul 22, 2011 10:16 pm Post subject: wow. |
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Wow. Bruiser, thank you. Such details may not mean much to most folks, but it does to me. Besides, 1943 is the year I was born.
So my camera is a Veteran. (Unknown if used in war zone I'm sure).
Dennis _________________ Dennis |
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bruiser
Joined: 15 Oct 2006 Posts: 260 Location: Northern NSW Australia
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Posted: Fri Jul 22, 2011 10:30 pm Post subject: |
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Unfortunately there is no way of knowing whether your camera was a training school unit or used at the front line, unless it has a bullet hole or two
Nice one to own.
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Bruce |
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