I have more - I think. But my phone is doing something weird and I want to make sure I’m not spamming with duplicates.
Sorry I didn’t do a better job of documentation. I assumed pretty much everyone here knows / has access to way more information than I.
Anyway, I will send any more I have once I sort out my phone.
Impressions: The Graflex looked real to me. Expect for the clamp which looked like a repro - no writing and sharply stamped square holes. Strangely, though, the lever looked correct. The bottom looked like a Graflex with solder or something smooshed on the outside of the Kobold clamp to cover up the writing. You can barely make out the stamping under the Kobold itself. I looked for Folmer and was not convinced it was there.
The glass eye DID look weird to me. At first at thought it might be one of the fake mirror ones. But I think I could see through the glass to dirt inside/underneath. The outside of the eye was turned quite aggressively, and looked like aged brass. It definitely looked like a shiny newer Graflex Patent number eye; and not the flatter one associated with the earlier Folmers. I have seen both for reference.
Also, the flat rivet holding on the (broken) beer tab seemed to be polished down to the brass.
Sorry I did not look so closely at the other two. I didn’t notice a hole in the side of emitter of the Luke. I wasn’t really looking for it. But I think it would have stood out as a little weird to me.
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Sorry I didn’t do a better job of documentation. I assumed pretty much everyone here knows / has access to way more information than I.
Anyway, I will send any more I have once I sort out my phone.
Impressions: The Graflex looked real to me. Expect for the clamp which looked like a repro - no writing and sharply stamped square holes. Strangely, though, the lever looked correct. The bottom looked like a Graflex with solder or something smooshed on the outside of the Kobold clamp to cover up the writing. You can barely make out the stamping under the Kobold itself. I looked for Folmer and was not convinced it was there.
The glass eye DID look weird to me. At first at thought it might be one of the fake mirror ones. But I think I could see through the glass to dirt inside/underneath. The outside of the eye was turned quite aggressively, and looked like aged brass. It definitely looked like a shiny newer Graflex Patent number eye; and not the flatter one associated with the earlier Folmers. I have seen both for reference.
Also, the flat rivet holding on the (broken) beer tab seemed to be polished down to the brass.
Sorry I did not look so closely at the other two. I didn’t notice a hole in the side of emitter of the Luke. I wasn’t really looking for it. But I think it would have stood out as a little weird to me.
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