Found in the wild! Graflex camera kit

thd9791

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I wanted to share, I found this on the local reservation at an antique mall the size of a wal mart...

it is only a Speed Graphic, spring back and film plates, a light box and ..oh yea a 3 cell in pristine condition.
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the lever is one of the older ones... and I have the sharp beveled glass eye. I’ll have to go through “that” thread to date this

missing a red button though, I think the photographer plugged some alternative thing in there
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I’ll also share that it was tagged for sale at around what a kit cost before TFA, and I got money off telling people I was a camera collector and just excited to see old cameras from when they had bellows :) I played it cool and kept my needs private. May have impressed the guywho unlocked the case for me by disassembling everything within 20 seconds to inspect it haha
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Thanks everyone! It was displayed really well, dish in the flash and the flash laid over the top of the case front and center, with the camera in front on the case floor. with no other cameras in it (believe me, I looked in the other cases stacked with cameras)

Since it was so well displayed I was afraid I was looking at a Gibson guitar but thankfully it wasn't
 
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