Want to Buy WTB old fiber paper, fog does not matter

Erik Petersson · May 20, 2018

If you have old fiber paper, I would like to buy it. Long forgotten, decades old, fogged, opened in direct light does not matter to me, as I plan to use it for alternative processes. I have had great results with paper from the 1960-ies and 1930-ies. I would prefer sizes from about 20x30 cm and up. I am based in Stockholm, Sweden.

Thanks!

John Koehrer · May 20, 2018

Hello Erik,
I have five packages of 25 sheets Ilfobrom Galerie 1.1K double weight. Four are still sealed one has a broken seal but not opened. I assume this is a grade 1.
I'd like $15.00 plus actual shipping for it.
I don't know if it would be worth your while to ship it, The post office doesn't seem to have an inexpensive alternative to priority mail
any longer and that, if it fits a medium box is $48.00
John

chip j · May 21, 2018

I have thousands of sheets of grade 1 PAL (efke) 11 X 14 FB that expired in the 90s, but shipping it would be an awful amount.

ann · May 21, 2018

I have a box at school. Have a darkroom class tomorrow night and will see if I have anything else.
You can have it for shipping cost

Erik Petersson · May 21, 2018

ann said:
I have a box at school. Have a darkroom class tomorrow night and will see if I have anything else.
You can have it for shipping cost

John Koehrer said:
Hello Erik,
I have five packages of 25 sheets Ilfobrom Galerie 1.1K double weight. Four are still sealed one has a broken seal but not opened. I assume this is a grade 1.
I'd like $15.00 plus actual shipping for it.
I don't know if it would be worth your while to ship it, The post office doesn't seem to have an inexpensive alternative to priority mail
any longer and that, if it fits a medium box is $48.00
John

Thanks John, that is generous of you! It does not seem so expensive after all if they fit into the medium box. How large are the sheets, by the way?

/Erik

Erik Petersson · May 21, 2018

chip j said:
I have thousands of sheets of grade 1 PAL (efke) 11 X 14 FB that expired in the 90s, but shipping it would be an awful amount.

Hi chip and thanks! Well, thousands of sheets would be too much for me anyway. Perhaps I could buy some of them? A hundred sheets would be a lot for this project anyway.

Erik Petersson · May 21, 2018

ann said:
I have a box at school. Have a darkroom class tomorrow night and will see if I have anything else.
You can have it for shipping cost

Thanks Ann! What kind of paper is it? The size matters to me, they need to be not too small to be useful for this project.

Erik Petersson · May 21, 2018

Thank you all! A friend and I are planning to do a number of larger lumen prints, so I am interested in what happens with the paper if it is left in the light or in the sun for a couple of hours. That's why some fog is of no consequence for this project.

Lumen prints are photograms made in the sun for a couple of hours or so, and then fixed. Amazing colours appear with some papers.

ann · May 21, 2018

Erik Petersson said:
Thanks Ann! What kind of paper is it? The size matters to me, they need to be not too small to be useful for this project.

I think 5x7. However. I have other boxes of 8x10'thstbhavevbeen hanging around. I will check on the fog level tomorrow

Erik Petersson · May 21, 2018

ann said:
I think 5x7. However. I have other boxes of 8x10'thstbhavevbeen hanging around. I will check on the fog level tomorrow

Ann, the 8x10 might be interesting, but not the smaller size.

Arthurwg · May 28, 2018

I've got some old AGFA Classic Matt, including an on-opened box of 20x24. Any interest?

Erik Petersson · May 28, 2018

Arthurwg said:
I've got some old AGFA Classic Matt, including an on-opened box of 20x24. Any interest?

Hi Arthurwg, thanks. I suppose that is 20x24 cm, right, not inches? A bit on the small side, perhaps. Is the paper warm tone? What would the cost be, if you include shipping to Sweden?
/Erik

Arthurwg · May 29, 2018

Np Erik, this is 20 x 24 inches. 50 sheets. Not warm tone. My favorite paper back in the day. No idea what it might cost to ship.

Erik Petersson · May 29, 2018

Arthurwg said:
Np Erik, this is 20 x 24 inches. 50 sheets. Not warm tone. My favorite paper back in the day. No idea what it might cost to ship.

Arthurwg, are you based in the US? I will be traveling there, in the northeast, in July. Perhaps we can think of something?
20x24 inches, nice!

Erik Petersson · Jul 19, 2018

Hello,
I will be in NYC from tomorrow, for approximately one week. If anyone of you live there, I might try to come by and buy some paper. Thanks!
/Erik

pentaxuser · Jul 20, 2018

Erik Petersson said:
opened in direct light does not matter to me, as I plan to use it for alternative processes.
Thanks!

Just for my education really. If paper has been opened in direct light( daylight, I presume) what alternative process can still be used?

Thanks

pentaxuser

Erik Petersson · Jul 20, 2018

pentaxuser said:
Just for my education really. If paper has been opened in direct light( daylight, I presume) what alternative process can still be used?

Thanks

pentaxuser

For lumen printing. The paper is exposed in the sun (or other uv-source i suppose) for many minutes or hours so a short exposure to daylight makes no difference.

pentaxuser · Jul 21, 2018

Erik Petersson said:
For lumen printing. The paper is exposed in the sun (or other uv-source i suppose) for many minutes or hours so a short exposure to daylight makes no difference.

Lumen printing, of course. This should have struck me. It had fallen beneath my radar Thanks

pentaxuser

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