{"id":29186,"date":"2024-07-20T01:03:29","date_gmt":"2024-07-20T05:03:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/?p=29186"},"modified":"2024-07-17T01:25:17","modified_gmt":"2024-07-17T05:25:17","slug":"those-were-the-days-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/those-were-the-days-5\/","title":{"rendered":"have muscles, can use an Auto Graflex …"},"content":{"rendered":"
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the famous Auto Graflex c1940 courtesy of Larry Boccioletti<\/p><\/div>\n

Toronto<\/strong>. Back in late 1986, the late Larry Boccioletti (co-founder and past president of the PHSC) wrote in the “Treasures from my Collection” column about his amazing find of a near perfect ‘Auto Graflex’ camera originally purchased (perhaps used) by the seller in 1940. The camera remains undated but that model was made from 1917-1941.<\/p>\n

Here is Larry (Lauro) beginning to discuss his find, “Every collector has a piece that has a special spot in his or her collection, and perhaps a story to go with it. I have several such pieces, of which one of my favourites is a 3 1\/4 x 4 1\/4 Auto Graflex with a revolving back.<\/p>\n

“The body and mechanics are in excellent condition, but the original lens board has been replaced with a fibre board fitted with an 8” Cooke lens. It is quite obvious from its condition that the camera was rarely used.<\/p>\n

“Yard sales have rarely yielded any real gems for my collection. This time was an exception. On my way home from my weekend retreat in Sutton, Ontario, I stopped at a sale on Highway 48 and, as I usually do, asked if there was any photographic equipment for sale.<\/p>\n

“I got the usual negative reply from the lady in charge, but she added that her dad, sitting under the tree “over yonder” had an old camera at his place. Naturally I asked the gentleman about his camera. He described it as an “old beast” with a thing on top that unfolded and you looked into it to focus and take the picture. I began to get excited as further questioning confirmed that it was almost certainly a Graflex.”<\/p>\n

Back then, members could read the rest of Larry’s story in the hard copy issue of Photographic Canadiana<\/em> (issue 12-3). Members who joined more recently could see this and other issues on the DVD sent to all members via Canada Post. This DVD includes volumes 1-40 of Photographic Canadiana<\/em>. It’s easy to join and get your copy of our DVD as a bonus. See the menu item MEMBERSHIP above or the right hand sidebar item on membership and payment through our PayPal account (anyone can use PayPal for payment)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Toronto. Back in late 1986, the late Larry Boccioletti (co-founder and past president of the PHSC) wrote in the “Treasures from my Collection” column about his amazing find of a near perfect ‘Auto Graflex’ camera originally purchased (perhaps used) by … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1944],"tags":[2017,398,14,563,263,605],"class_list":["post-29186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","tag-article","tag-camera","tag-film","tag-glass-plate","tag-graflex","tag-membership"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29186","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29186"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29186\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29192,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29186\/revisions\/29192"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}