[W&B] A return to civility. Goodbye IDCC.

[Eric Evans]

Hi Fred,
           I have just performed a minor miracle with what I laughingly call my "filing system", and found the Photographica World you suggested. Lovely article, and the reason I hadn't read it previously was that my wife was at that time in hospital with her final illness, and I was fully engaged with that at the time.
    Having read your article, I can see what I am up against, but nil desperandum and nil illegitimae carborundum, I shall continue to amass more than my fair share of those wonderful 19C. cameras. But I do prefer ones that have a name on them, even if the name is wrong.
    I bought, at a camera fair, because I am mad, the front end of a camera remarkably like your Suter/Labarre, but with no badge at all. 
    That guy who goes around with a chain saw prior to camera fairs, had removed the magazine, not in any sane and rational way, but by sawing it off and then "fitting"....I use the word loosely.....a back that on a good day might have accepted a metal plateholder. I have "rescued" it to the best of my ability, by hybridising it with a good quality focusing back from a quarter-plate mahogany camera, and it displays well for a fake, but it will never be properly well, until I manage to find the bit he cut off. Fat chance.
    I have a camera labelled "Sands-Hunter" which is quite obviously a Houghtons' Sanderson, because nobody could mistake a Sanderson at ten paces. And as your article affirms, there were known to be outlets who re-badged other people's products. 
    In the HULME case, it was of course the word "Manufacturer" that threw me.....a bit blatant, that was.
Thanks again for your interest.
Regards,
Eric.
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