Holy Freakin Moly! St Louis Estate Sale!

trythis

Member

Joined

Sep 26, 2013

Messages

1,208

Location

St Louis

Format

35mm

• Jul 17, 2014

• #1

http://www.estatesales.net/estate-sales/MO/Saint-Louis/63146/684252
If you like Topcon and screw mount this is your 135 heaven!

What a week too be out of town...sigh! [emoji24]

 

Last edited by a moderator: Jul 17, 2014

bdial

Subscriber

Joined

Jan 2, 2005

Messages

7,466

Location

North East U.S.

Format

Multi Format

• Jul 17, 2014

• #2

I am sooo glad I don't own that many cameras.

At least, not yet anyway

 

cramej

Member

Joined

Dec 29, 2009

Messages

1,235

Format

Multi Format

• Jul 17, 2014

• #3

Too bad they stickered the front element on more than half of the lenses...

 

snapguy

Member

Joined

Jan 1, 2014

Messages

1,287

Location

California d

Format

35mm

• Jul 17, 2014

• #4

proof

This proves I'm not nutso about having a collection of olde cameras. A little off, maybe, but not 'round the bend.

 

OP

OP

trythis

Member

Joined

Sep 26, 2013

Messages

1,208

Location

St Louis

Format

35mm

• Jul 17, 2014

• #5

I emailed them about the stickers...hopefully they aren't what it looks like. Most of the boxes look like knock off zooms by siligor or whatever on further examination. I am sure there are some lovelies in there. Hopefully the stickers aren't really what they seem!

 

ntenny

Subscriber

Joined

Mar 5, 2008

Messages

2,477

Location

Portland, OR, USA

Format

Multi Format

• Jul 17, 2014

• #6

You know, pack rat though I am, I don't quite understand what drives *this* sort of collection mentality. Large numbers of, not just consumer zooms, but the *same* consumer zooms? Why?

Undoubtedly there is plenty of nice stuff in there. I see a couple of promising-looking 6x9 folders, maybe a MF SLR, and something that appears to be a Mamiya TLR body. But there are whole stacks of identical-looking Auto-Coligon boxen, for instance. I'm all for people collecting whatever floats their goat, but does anyone understand what motivates a collection like this?

-NT

 

Dan Fromm

Member

Joined

Mar 23, 2005

Messages

6,823

Format

Multi Format

• Jul 17, 2014

• #7

Nathan, I have trouble telling what's there in any detail from the pictures. They give the impression that the deceased bought out a couple of dead camera stores. And they remind me very much of the heaps of, mainly, junk that the Duren (Brooklyn Camera Exchange) and Vinegar (Photorama) families take to camera shows.

 

OP

OP

trythis

Member

Joined

Sep 26, 2013

Messages

1,208

Location

St Louis

Format

35mm

• Jul 18, 2014

• #8

yep...stickers. I wrote them and begged them not to do that in the future.

 

AgX

Member

Joined

Apr 5, 2007

Messages

29,973

Location

Germany

Format

Multi Format

• Jul 18, 2014

• #9

Dan Fromm said:

And they remind me very much of the heaps of, mainly, junk that the Duren (Brooklyn Camera Exchange) and Vinegar (Photorama) families take to camera shows.

Click to expand...

The one man's junk is the other man's delight.

 

OP

OP

trythis

Member

Joined

Sep 26, 2013

Messages

1,208

Location

St Louis

Format

35mm

• Jul 24, 2014

• #10

I missed the sale but found the thrift store everything else went to. Sadly nothing of interest, just broken fungus ridden junk at way too high prices for a thrift store.