[W&B] Nettel folding plate camera

[Milan Zahorcak]

Greetings,

A friend of mine has asked me to identify this camera . . . hardly Wood &
Brass, but in a few years we'll have a forum named "Metal & Glass" and all
the kids born in the past 20 years, who've never seen a metal camera, will
Ooohhh and Aahhh about this sort of thing.

http://www.pacificrimcamera.com/milanpub/Nettel/FrameSet.htm

It's a Nettel folding plate camera of some sort.

All I know about these things is that they're generally referred to as
folding plate cameras.  Proper description would probably read:

Nettel 9x12cm Folding Plate Camera, Goerz Dagor lens, with holders and case,
c1915-1920.

Nettel with that logo was started in 1908 and merged with Contessa in 1919
to be come Contessa-Nettel, and a bit later they merged with a number of
companies to become Zeiss Ikon in 1926.  Nettel and Contessa-Nettel cameras
retained many of their earlier designs, and sometimes it's tricky to figure
out who is who.

Chances are that this camera is just Nettel, or maybe early Contessa-Nettel,
probably 1915-1920, give or take a couple of years.

The size looks like 9 x 12 CM which was one of the more popular formats.

The lens is a Goerz "Doppel Anastigmat" Dagor - pretty decent lens even
today.

Usually there is a name or catalog # somewhere on the body - not on the
shutter or lens - but usually there is a name either stamped onto the handle
or the body directly under it.  Other places may be on the back, or inside
of the folding bed, or the front standard under the shutter.

But not on this one.  There's no identification that Will can find.

So, questions to the group:

1.  Can anyone identify this particular camera?

2.  If we can identify it, I suppose we could figure out a value?

3.  And finally, since my friend is trying to sell the camera the camera
anyway, please feel free to contact me if you have an interest.

Thanks,

mz