Here are some golden oldies: I've got six wooden glass plate holders from Korona. Four are decent, and two are good on one side only. The two crappy ones have the wooden piece covering the light baffle broken off on one side. I have one of the broken off pieces, but the holder it came off of has lost the small foil inserts that form the light baffle. I always figured I could put a strip of felt in there and glue the piece of wood back on, but I'll leave that experiment to the new owner.
I've never used these holders, not having a 5x7, so I can't comment on their light tightness. They seem in good working order. Satisfaction guaranteed, or your purchase price refunded. You get to pay the shipping, though.
These holders, BTW, have release levers on the side. The levers apparently push down on the end springs tensioning the glass plate, so that they can be popped out. I'm not sure how well that mechanism works, however, as one of the crappy holders has a glass plate in it, and I can't get it out. More work for the new owner.
Can these be used for wet plate? Beats me. I'm not a practitioner of that dark art.
How's about I asks for $100 + shipping for the lot? If that's too much, I'll drop the asking price fairly quickly. Check back tomorrow.
Charley
I've never used these holders, not having a 5x7, so I can't comment on their light tightness. They seem in good working order. Satisfaction guaranteed, or your purchase price refunded. You get to pay the shipping, though.
These holders, BTW, have release levers on the side. The levers apparently push down on the end springs tensioning the glass plate, so that they can be popped out. I'm not sure how well that mechanism works, however, as one of the crappy holders has a glass plate in it, and I can't get it out. More work for the new owner.
Can these be used for wet plate? Beats me. I'm not a practitioner of that dark art.
How's about I asks for $100 + shipping for the lot? If that's too much, I'll drop the asking price fairly quickly. Check back tomorrow.
Charley
