Score! Free Camera!

[JohnRichard]

So I was at my very late great grandmothers house today, looking for a station wagen that has disappeared. I stumbled on an open room attached to the garage. Mind you, I have been looking for this mythical camera for some time, and today I found it. Buried underneath some motorcycle engine parts, and some other... things, I found:

A Burk and James Rembrant portrait (I think its 4x5)
A Graflex 120 roll holder! YAY!
A Kodak Anastigmat f - 4.5 7.5" loaded in... some kind of shutter (see pics)
A Kodak Ektar f:3,5 and I think what says F - 5cm but its way tinyer than any 50mm I have ever seen. (likely broken)

A Meyer Gorlitz Weitwinkel Aristostigmat 1:6.3/100v (Simi-broken)
A Kodak Ektar f4.7 127mm loaded in a Rapdx Synchromatic (Best of the lot)
Finally I got a Spiratone 50mm f3.5, no shutter.

I have a lot of cleaning to do the next few weeks. I started on the 127mm ektar, because I can throw it on the Speed and test it. The rest of this stuff, I have no Idea about. But since I own every format camera, something is bound to work.
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[Anscojohn]

The Spiratone 50 is an enlarging lens, ah betcha.

 

[paul ewins]

Looks like a Packard shutter to me. Despite the surface rust I would expect that it would be easy to clean and get back in running order. The thing at the bottom of the air cylinder is probably a flash sync. Just speculating a bit, but the screw behind the two blades could allow you to adjust the firing time if you were using flash bulbs.

 

[willrea]

Nice find.

 

[Bosaiya]

Did you ever find the station wagon???

 

[Rick A]

The Spiatone 50/3.5 is an enlarging lens for sure---Great score on the rest of the treasure!

Rick

 

[JohnRichard]

I still have not located the wagon, it was a 62 Pontiac? I think, and the reason I want it is because A) I can make a cool rat rod out of it, and 2) It has a 60 degree aluminum v6 in it, with 40k original miles.

 

[John Kasaian]

I think it is really cool that your great grandmother not only was a large format photographer, but that she also worked on motorcycle engines!
IIRC the Rembrandt will also accept a 5x7 back.

 

[keithwms]

Ooh, nice haul! Unfortunately my grandmothers were just into knitting and crosswords.

 

[Colin Corneau]

Go Granny, Go Granny, Go Granny GO!