Please help me identify this camera!

I have an old camera I'm interested in selling. It belonged to my
grandfather. You can see a couple pictures of it at:

http://home.netcom.com/~worldforfree...ges/camera.jpg

Those those pictures aren't clear. Some hints:

Under the lens it says IIex Shutter. The lense itself casy Citer
Anastigmatic and the lens speed knob about the lens says ACME on it.

The camera is in rough condition, and other than those markings, I
have no idea of the brand, let alone the value.

Can you help me?

Best might be to email me directly: , as I am
rarely on this forum.

Thanks,
MB

Thanks,

"Mykel B." wrote in message
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I have an old camera I'm interested in selling. It belonged to my
grandfather. You can see a couple pictures of it at:

http://home.netcom.com/~worldforfree...ges/camera.jpg

Those those pictures aren't clear. Some hints:

Under the lens it says IIex Shutter. The lense itself casy Citer
Anastigmatic and the lens speed knob about the lens says ACME on it.

The camera is in rough condition, and other than those markings, I
have no idea of the brand, let alone the value.

Can you help me?

Best might be to email me directly: , as I am
rarely on this forum.

Thanks,
MB

Thanks,


It is hard to be sure without seeing the back of the camera, but it looks a
lot like an early Polaroid. If that is the case, and in "rough condition,"
I doubt it is worth more than $20 or $30 (U.S.).

Walt

"Mykel B." wrote in message
...
I have an old camera I'm interested in selling. It belonged to my
grandfather. You can see a couple pictures of it at:

http://home.netcom.com/~worldforfree...ges/camera.jpg

Those those pictures aren't clear. Some hints:

Under the lens it says IIex Shutter. The lense itself casy Citer
Anastigmatic and the lens speed knob about the lens says ACME on it.

The camera is in rough condition, and other than those markings, I
have no idea of the brand, let alone the value.

Can you help me?

Best might be to email me directly: , as I am
rarely on this forum.

Thanks,
MB

Thanks,


It is hard to be sure without seeing the back of the camera, but it looks a
lot like an early Polaroid. If that is the case, and in "rough condition,"
I doubt it is worth more than $20 or $30 (U.S.).

Walt

I have an old camera I'm interested in selling. It belonged to my
grandfather. You can see a couple pictures of it at:
http://home.netcom.com/~worldforfree...ges/camera.jpg
Those those pictures aren't clear. Some hints:
Under the lens it says IIex Shutter. The lense itself casy Citer
Anastigmatic and the lens speed knob about the lens says ACME on it.

Before 1920. The shutter might be okay and the bellows looks to be
in good condition, but the lens is mediocre, that type of viewfinder
is appalling, and it probably takes 116 film which isn't available
any more except to special order. It's not in good enough condition
to be worth anything to a collector and it isn't very usable either.
Keep it as a memory of your grandfather.


Best might be to email me directly: , as I am
rarely on this forum.

That's ill-mannered. If you want a private opinion or valuation,
pay for it.

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Mykel B. wrote:
I have an old camera I'm interested in selling. It belonged to my
grandfather. You can see a couple pictures of it at:

http://home.netcom.com/~worldforfree...ges/camera.jpg

Those those pictures aren't clear. Some hints:

Under the lens it says IIex Shutter. The lense itself casy Citer
Anastigmatic and the lens speed knob about the lens says ACME on it.

The camera is in rough condition, and other than those markings, I
have no idea of the brand, let alone the value.

Polaroid it isn't (way precedes same), pre-1920 it most probably is. A
relatively advanced camera for the period. Might be European (French?).

Some of these may help you...
http://www.cosmonet.org/camera/index_e.html
http://jay-tepper.com/

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On Thu, 28 Apr 2005 03:43:49 GMT, Mykel B.
wrote:

I have an old camera I'm interested in selling. It belonged to my
grandfather. You can see a couple pictures of it at:

http://home.netcom.com/~worldforfree...ges/camera.jpg

Those those pictures aren't clear. Some hints:

Under the lens it says IIex Shutter. The lense itself casy Citer
Anastigmatic and the lens speed knob about the lens says ACME on it.

The camera is in rough condition, and other than those markings, I
have no idea of the brand, let alone the value.

Can you help me?

Best might be to email me directly: , as I am
rarely on this forum.

Thanks,
MB

Thanks,



According to this: http://www.skgrimes.com/ilex/

the shutter is probably american.

Sometimes made for Kodak cameras.

Matt

Mykel B. wrote:

I have an old camera I'm interested in selling. It belonged to my
grandfather. You can see a couple pictures of it at:

http://home.netcom.com/~worldforfree...ges/camera.jpg



Those aren't pictures, those are blurry globs. Post some better in focus
pictures and someone might be able to ID it. A closeup of the front of the
lens would help a bunch.
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Stacey

I have an old camera I'm interested in selling. It belonged to my
grandfather. You can see a couple pictures of it at:
http://home.netcom.com/~worldforfree...ges/camera.jpg
Those aren't pictures, those are blurry globs. Post some better in focus
pictures and someone might be able to ID it. A closeup of the front of the
lens would help a bunch.

There also seems to be some lettering on the end below the handle.


: It looks like and old Box Brownie to me.

It's a folding camera, not a box. It has a focusing rail, which
a box camera doesn't, and shutter speed and aperture controls,
which the Brownie didn't. It's a mid-range amateur's camera from
the first quarter of the 20th century. A better camera of the
period would have had a rising front and a much better lens than
an "anastigmatic", and possibly a wire-frame finder (that angle
finder is not going to be much better than the one on a Brownie,
i.e. a nasty barely usable piece of ****).

Kodak made cameras like that but so did many other manufacturers.
The full inscription on the lens would help, since many makers
badged their own versions of popular lens designs. The serial
number might date it to within a few weeks. The maker's name or
logo is most likely to be somewhere on the outer surface of the
camera so you can see it when it's closed; maybe the back or the
front flap.

If you can get film for it, it will probably still take better
architectural pictures in good light than any digital camera
within an amateur's budget, and would be perfectly serviceable
for studio porn if the actors don't mind getting their pink bits
toasted under tungsten floodlights.

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