New Use for Old Folder

[casualcollector]

Found this at Salvation Army earlier this week. Couldn't resist at $1.00. It was half price day, so I got .50 change!

[Deleted]

Sorta neat but I want to be there when you try to close it.

Wayne

[Reiska]

Wow! Perhaps minor CLA and it's impeccable. Don't touch the wonderful patina.
That brown plug, is it an oil plug of the shutter crankcase?

Wayne is right. Don't use force. Just take a bigger sledgehammer.

[casualcollector]

Even Peter Wallage Master of Old Folders might find a degree of difficulty restoring this one!

I think the brown plug represents a cigarette butt. As ashtrays go, this one's a real charmer.

[mickeyobe]

Poor thing.

Isn't there a law against assault and battery?

Is that a pencil eraser protruding from below the lens? (I hope)

OK. I apologize.

If I were you I would treasure it ----- I ------- um ----- ah -----

I am sure it will look much better when you remove that rawhide neck strap.

Poor thing. Poor thing. Poor ---

Mickey

[PeterW]

Even Peter Wallage Master of Old Folders might find a degree of difficulty restoring this one!

Thanks for the title! You're quite right, I never was much good at restoring die-cast ornaments.

PeterW

[galenk]

I have one almost like that! It sits proudly with the rest of my collection.

[kat]

I get things like that as gifts from people because they say, "oh, you collect cameras, so I thought you would love it."