What price Portrellic?

[jimgalli]

This pretty well speaks for itself. 15" f4.5 Series II Portrellic's don't surface too often and this one looked pretty fine. Maybe a grand was a bargain. Hurrell could tell you. That equals a little less that $80 1938 dollars.

 

[jimgalli]

Actually I planned to drive to Idaho Falls to pick this up to circumvent the $400 shipping, but my $913 was a fart in the whirlwind.

 

[colrehogan]

Sniped by a buyer with 0 transactions? You gotta want it! If you make it to Boise, I'd love to meet you.

Jay

I thought that was interesting too.

 

[df cardwell]

Pre Ebay, it's at least $1500 for the lens.

 

[John Kasaian]

Hey Jim, I'd almost feel sorry for you if you hadn't scored on that lot of lenses, one of them being a Cooke series XV! ;-) Congratulations!

 

[Kerik]

It's looking to me like tomfoxwell is the new Jim Galli. He's been sniping the good stuff lately.

 

[jimgalli]

Somehow I always breathe a sigh of relief when I bid $913 I don't really have for something made in 1929 that I've only seen a 45 kb photo of and then get outbid. Foxwell needs to sign up for Galli sniping 101 though. He had 5 bids in place all against himself before a 2nd bidder ever showed up.

 

[MattCarey]

Wasn't this camera for sale before? I seem to recall the wonderful white paint.

Matt

 

[Charles Webb]

If a course in "Galli Sniping" is ever offered I want to be the first enrolled!!!

The true story of that studio camera will truly never be known. Any person that would paint a natural wood camera white has/had little chance of living long enough to tell the story.

As I believe that the good Mother Earth and Father Sun supported by my four
Grandfathers the N. the S, E. and W. Would instantly would strike the painter down and burry him and his paint brush under a mound of D***tal waste. For commiting a known to be unpardinable sin!

My opinion,
Charlie..........................

 

[Dan Fromm]

Charles, every Noba studio camera I've seen has been painted, white IIRC.

 

[Phillip P. Dimor]

I think the seller had been trying to sell that for a while. Beatiful camera, beautiful lens. Even an aesthetically pleasing auction. Thanks for sharing that, now i'm drooling!

 

[Billy Bob]

port cam

I know where you can buy one of these that has not been painted white. The camera is in Balto, MD but its not mine. At least I've been told its the same camera and has 8x10 and 5x7 backs with a heliar lens.

 

[jimgalli]

I'm embarrassed to admit I have 5 of these cameras. 4 8X10 / 5X7 and a giant 11X14. Every one of them came to me with a "lens" I wanted. The cameras seem to just come along for the ride. One is very late, perhaps even mid 1960's and has a factory grey paint job. It brought me my 42cm Heliar. One is listed here in the classifieds with little or no interest. Unless you've got delusions of Hurrell grandeaur, they simply aren't very desireable. BTW the second lens in this ad was a 305mm Bausch & Lomb tessar. So trying to recover any of the investment by "selling off" the extra un-needed items wouldn't have gotten you $200 back. At $400 shipping it would have been cheaper to talk the guy into keeping the camera and just mailing that superb lens.

 

[Kerik]

Jim,

Can you point me to the ad for your beastly camera?

 

[MattCarey]

Jim,

Can you point me to the ad for your beastly camera?

I think he is talking about this one:
(there was a url link here which no longer exists)

Matt

 

[jimgalli]

Thanks Matt. Would listen to offers without the lens but the price with the big Petzval probably is on the light side as it is.

 

[Kerik]

Don't need the lens. Got plenty of nice portrait glass already. I was hoping it would be on a stand like the one on ebay. I'm getting ready to do some collodion work in studio, and those old roll-around camera stands are the kind. And driving to pick it up wouldn't be out of the question. Haven't been to Tonapah since geology field camp in college. Did some mapping in the Monte Cristos...

 

[jimgalli]

Hi Kerik, Sorry, of the 4 cameras, I only got one stand and it's in use. But come on over some time I'd be happy with a $100 for the old camera. Especially if I didn't have to ship it. Do you remember a spot called the Esmeralda Badlands in the Monte Cristo's? Gorgeous landscapes out there and completey unperturbed.

 

[Charles Webb]

Dan,
I still say it is a unforgivable sin to paint a Mahogany camera of any brand
"white". But then I guess beauty does perhaps reside in the eye of the beholder!

Again, my opinion,
Charlie...........................