What In Sam Hill Are These?

n2mf · Feb 28, 2014

These were in a pile of photographic equipment that I purchased from a retired photographer.

Do you know what they are?

If so, please share.

Tom1956 · Feb 28, 2014

Don't be fooled. Just because they came in a load of old photo junk doesn't mean they had anything to do with photography. BTDT.

winger · Feb 28, 2014

They look like pressure thingys from a contact printing frame? Maybe?
But I agree with Tom, too.

n2mf · Feb 28, 2014

Tom1956 said:
Don't be fooled. Just because they came in a load of old photo junk doesn't mean they had anything to do with photography. BTDT.

Yes, this is true.

jp498 · Feb 28, 2014

You don't show the size of them. If they are quite small, they could be clips for holding groundglass in place.

cjbecker · Feb 28, 2014

The pressure springs from a contact printing frame, But then I started looking at them closer and have no idea.

n2mf · Feb 28, 2014

jp498 said:
You don't show the size of them. If they are quite small, they could be clips for holding groundglass in place.

5 1/2" & 6 1/2" long, closed. Double that opened.

Jeff Kubach · Feb 28, 2014

Maybe thongs?

Jeff

winger · Feb 28, 2014

Jeff Kubach said:
Maybe thongs?

Jeff

Do you mean tongs? 'Cause thongs of metal??

Tom1956 · Feb 28, 2014

There is a sure-fire way to find out what they are. Throw them in the garbage and wait at least 2 weeks. Then, you'll figure out what they were and how badly you had been needing them for years. Works every time.

snapguy · Feb 28, 2014

The thingamagigs that hold the watchmacallet. Could they be used to keep leather bellows in place? The spring that activates the Decisive Moment Indicator?

RalphLambrecht · Feb 28, 2014

n2mf said:
These were in a pile of photographic equipment that I purchased from a retired photographer.

Do you know what they are?

If so, please share.

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weights for hanging and drying film?:confused:

n2mf · Feb 28, 2014

RalphLambrecht said:
weights for hanging and drying film?:confused:

Actually, that probably makes sense. These were in the boxes that had all the developing stuff.

shutterfinger · Mar 1, 2014

Pressure arms from an early wet plate camera/developing station?

WayneStevenson · Mar 2, 2014

Bent scissor hinges from the bellows of a pocket camera? Heh. Looks like garbage.

Bill Burk · Mar 2, 2014

shutterfinger said:
Pressure arms from an early wet plate camera/developing station?

This is what I think they are... hold-downs for plates/paper on a board used as a coating station.

They could also be used on a copystand to hold squirrely copy such as loose pages or books open to the page you are copying.

The fact one of them seems to have a wire soldered to it makes me think whoever used these before might have been doing some copperplating and used one to make contact with electricity.

Jeff Kubach · Mar 2, 2014

winger said:
Do you mean tongs? 'Cause thongs of metal??

Sorry about my mispelling.

Jeff

js98367 · May 1, 2016

n2mf said:
These were in a pile of photographic equipment that I purchased from a retired photographer.

Do you know what they are?

If so, please share.

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Struts from the world's first field camera.

paul ron · May 1, 2016

WayneStevenson said:
Bent scissor hinges from the bellows of a pocket camera? Heh. Looks like garbage.

hinges for sure. swing away springs of some sort. can be used to hold gg n film holders maybe?

randyB · May 8, 2016

I think they are paper clips from the late 1800's early 1900's. In the early 70's I worked in an office supply store and I remember something very close to these that accounting companies used a lot.

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