[W&B] Nettel folding plate camera

[Milan Zahorcak]

Yes, yes.  No doubt from fondling the Klito . . . wait, that's Houghton.
Never mind.

Who thought these were great names for cameras?

But let us depart too far from track . . . Back to Nettels.

mz



> -----Original Message-----
> From: woodandbrass-bounces at kjsl.com 
> [mailto:woodandbrass-bounces at kjsl.com] On Behalf Of Mark Baltor
> Sent: Thursday, February 15, 2007 5:05 PM
> To: Collectors of 19th Century Cameras &Photographica
> Subject: Re: [W&B] Nettel folding plate camera
> 
> 
> One must take great care in handling German Folding Cameras; 
> if one is not 
> careful one could get the Klapp!
> Mark Baltor
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Milan Zahorcak" <milan.zahorcak at comcast.net>
> To: "Wood & Brass" <woodandbrass at kjsl.com>
> Sent: Thursday, February 15, 2007 4:53 PM
> Subject: [W&B] Nettel folding plate camera
> 
> 
> 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
> 
> 
>