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Divided reverse. Letter generously translated by xiphophilos, penned on 1 December 1917 and addressed to a Herr Edmund Happ, master shoemaker, in Markt Wald near Türkheim (Bavaria). Einheitsstempel: Bayer. Res. Pi. Komp. [Nr. 19?] Deutsche Feldpost 752. Postage cancelled the same day.
A2170 was on a bombing mission to Somain in Northern France on 23rd November 1917 when it was brought down by heavy AA fire near Douai. The official report states that the pilot, 2Lt R. Main had his foot blown off but landed the aircraft relatively intact before it overturned.
The unique white crescent insignia was allotted on 26th of August 1917. The "L" represents "B" flight.
The Generous Briton, Brant Broughton, Lincolnshire. I wonder if they offer free refillable beer?
24th January 2019
Cavendish Mews is a smart set of flats in Mayfair where flapper and modern woman, the Honourable Lettice Chetwynd has set up home after coming of age and gaining her allowance. To supplement her already generous allowance, and to break away from dependence upon her family, Lettice has established herself as a society interior designer, so her flat is decorated with a mixture of elegant antique Georgian pieces and modern Art Deco furnishings, using it as a showroom for what she can offer to her well heeled clients.
Lettice has spent the evening at one of London’s most exclusive and glamorous nightclubs, the Embassy Club on Bond Street: dining with friends the Honourable Gerald Bruton, Celia Beauchamp, Peter Bradley, Marguerite de Virre and Lettice’s older brother and heir to the pater’s title, lands and fortune, Leslie Chetwynd. After dinner, they danced into the wee hours of the morning to the wonderful music of Bert Ambrose and his Orchestra.
Letting herself in through the front door with her latch key, Lettice still tiptoes about like she did when she was younger and sneaking home to her parents’ Sloane Square terrace. She deposits her cape, gloves, compact and bandeau on one of her tub chairs in the drawing room before slipping quietly through the green baize door into the servant’s part of her flat. Now in lisle clad feet only, there is no need to tiptoe past Edith’s room, but old habits die hard as she trips lighly across the black and white cheque linoleum floor. However, once in the kitchen, Lettice throws on the lights and makes a clattering noise as she goes looking about for a milk pan, a teacup, saucer, plate, the Huntley and Palmer’s Empire Assorted, and her decadent nightcap, the Bournville Cocoa.
“Can I be of any help, Miss?” Edith yawns as she steps bleary eyed into the kitchen in her dressing gown with her hair in Kirby grips.
“Oh, I shouldn’t think so Edith,” Lettice replies nonchalantly, gasping with delight as she finds the milk bottle in the food safe in the corner of the kitchen. “Nanny Webster always said that making cocoa was an art.” Giggling she continues. “Wouldn’t pampered Marguerite and Celia die if they saw me trying to make my own cocoa!”
“Have you ever made cocoa before, Miss?” Edith asks, watching her mistress with her arms akimbo.
“Well… not exactly, Edith, but it can’t be that hard.” Lettice replies as she looks in a rather perplexed fashion at the pan, the canister of cocoa and the milk.
“Well, I’m up now Miss, so shall I make it for you?”
“Oh! Oh, would you Edith?” Lettice gasps in delight. Turning around she throws her arms around Edith’s neck, much to the other woman’s consternation, and beams one of her winning smiles. “Oh you are a brick! There’s nothing quite like a hot cocoa after a night out dancing to help settle one down.”
“And whilst I make it, you can tell me what you and your friends got up to tonight, Miss.”
Edith busies herself pouring the milk into the pan and setting it on the stove whilst Lettice sinks into the ladderback chair, the only chair, in the small kitchen.
“Well, darling Marguerite almost got to dance with the Prince of Wales tonight… almost,” Lettice begins as she nibbles delicately on a Huntley and Palmer’s Bourbon biscuit.
This year the FFF+ Group have decided to have a weekly challenge called “Snap Happy”. A different theme chosen by a member of the group each week, and the image is to be posted on the Monday of the week.
This week the theme, “drinks” was chosen by Di, PhotosbyDi.
As adults, when we think of drinks, alcohol often comes to mind first. However, when it’s bedtime, Lettice is right, a cup of rich chocolaty Bourneville cocoa is a decadent nightcap. Lettice’s well set out ingredient selection is a little different to what you might think, for it is made up entirely of 1:12 size dollhouse miniatures from my miniatures collection, some of which come from my own childhood.
Fun things to look for in this tableaux include:
The canister of Bournville Cocoa, which is a 1:12 artisan miniature from Small Wonders suppliers in England. Bournville is a brand of dark chocolate produced by Cadbury. It is named after the model village of the same name in Birmingham, England and was first sold in 1908. Bournville Cocoa was one of the products sold by Cadbury. The label on the canister is a transitional one used after the First World War and shared both the old fashioned Edwardian letter B and more modern 1920s lettering for the remainder of the name. The red of the lettering is pre-war whilst the orange and white a post-war change.
The Huntley and Palmer’s biscuit tin and Bourbon biscuits are also 1:12 artisan pieces. Huntley & Palmers is a British firm of biscuit makers originally based in Reading, Berkshire. The company created one of the world\'s first global brands and ran what was once the world\'s largest biscuit factory. Over the years, the company was also known as J. Huntley & Son and Huntley & Palmer. The Huntley and Palmer’s Empire Assorted tin featuring Boudicca upon it was first used during the Great War to stimulate nationalist fervour both in the trenches and on the home front. The design was so popular that it carried on through the 1920s.
Lettice’s cup, saucer and plate are from a beautiful artisan tea set featuring a rather avant-garde Art Deco Royal Doulton design from the Edwardian era.
The milk bottle, copper milk pan and spoon are also 1:12 size miniatures. The copper pan is made of real copper and is very heavy for its size!
The sink in the background has some interesting items on it. On the left hand draining board stands a box of Sunlight soap and a can of Vim, both cleaning essentials in any 1920s household. Vim scouring powder was created by William Hesketh Lever (1st Viscount Leverhulme) and introduced to the market in 1904. It was produced at Port Sunlight in Wirrel, Merseyside, a model village built by Lever Brothers for the workers of their factories which produced the popular soap brands Lux, Lifebuoy and Sunlight. Sunlight Soap was first introduced in 1884.
To the left of the sink is the food safe with a mop leaning against it. In the days before refrigeration, or when refrigeration was expensive, perishable foods such as meat, butter, milk and eggs were kept in a food safe. Winter was easier than summer to keep food fresh and butter coolers and shallow bowls of cold water were early ways to keep things like milk and butter cool. A food safe was a wooden cupboard with doors and sides open to the air apart from a covering of fine galvinised wire mesh. This allowed the air to circulate while keeping insects out. There was usually an upper and a lower compartment, normally lined with what was known as American cloth, a fabric with a glazed or varnished wipe-clean surface. Refrigerators, like washing machines were American inventions and were not commonplace in even wealthy upper-class households until well after the Second World War.
This was the first site I visited with the wonderfully generous Balta and I was absolutely blown away. There it was, a complex with multiple structures, its buildings with the ornate facades still mostly intact, just sitting in the jungle with not a soul around but us. I felt incredibly lucky to be able to visit and see such an an amazing site. It was a very special day.
Andrews ("Xkichmook Revisited") believes Xkichmook was built about 800AD. H.E.D Pollock ("The Puuc") states that "with the exception of Edifice 1, the structures at Xkichmook do not seem to be of major importance, and I should guess the site to be small to medium size" but it was certainly spectacular to me.
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Thank you for viewing and have a happy day.
Explore #4, May 10 2012
Like to dedicate this to ALL Loving & Caring fathers out there.
Have a Great Day with the family!
Sad that this pic was stolen and
Explore #4, May 10 2012
Wishing all a Happy Weekend ahead!
When I visited my daughter on March 20 2011, my grandson, Aidan, was telling me about this bird with babies. I was excited and asked him to show me. He took me outside his home and pointed up - "there they are".
Wow - I saw how cute they were and grab my cam from the car.
Thank you Aidan!
Update: May10 2012
This pic is sold to Nat Geo for their coming book. Proceeds is going to charity.
The lady who bought the pic had a hard time tracking me down becos the person who downloaded this pic from my Flickr account without my knowledge, plastered this all over the internet and change my name from Ric Seet to Rik Seet. So no one can track the originator down. Now others are profiteering from this scam and here is the link to one such websites. You pay them to download my stolen pic:
pixdaus.com/under-her-wings-by-rik-seet-birds-aves-fauna-...
When I did a Rik Seet goggle search there are about 4 full pages of links to such websites !
www.google.com.sg/search?q=Rik Seet&ie=utf-8&oe=u...
This is one of the downside of the internet. To prevent such future mishaps, I have since disabled the download feature under Privacy & Settings. Base on the feedback this is not even safe. Additional advises is to add Watermarks and reduce file size to 800X800. From what I am hearing nothing is save on the net.
Thank you friends for your kind advise. .
Update: May13 2012
I managed to write to a few websites/blogs via email and FB.
1. A friend responded on FB and apologize for posting the pic on FB for Mother Day.
2. An Australian cyclist by the name of Craig plaster the pic for 2012 Mother Day. I wrote to inform him that the pic is my and he blocked me off immi'ly. Isn't that just great, steals your pic and ignores you!
3. What's even more interesting is Pixdaus.com has an option for you to complain if your are the owner of the intellectual property. Isn't this a laugh. I presume they believe they excuse themselves of any legal obligation in the eyes of the law by having this feature on their website! I have written to them and waiting for their reply.
Update June 1 2012
Today a caring Flickr friend brought to my attention that the above pic was stolen again and this pic was posted on Flickr. Wrote to the person to delete my picture which was done. Not a word of apology.
These people have no shame - steal other pictures and post it like theirs. Even took part in invites and participated at the various levels of award to claim credit for themselves.
here is the link if this shameful person and I have seen another couple of stolen pics as well becos they are too skillful for him. Even wrote to advise that these be remove. I am contacting the legal department of Yahoo in Singapore and making a few suggesting to them to apprehend such people.
by Pasckal2011
www.flickr.com/photos/69511790@N07/7293622534/
Since then more Flickr friends have alerted me. I am now no more angry becos I have learnt to share and come to realized this picture brings great memories & joy to others. One guy wrote to request for a print becos he wanted to place it next to his Bible.
He said that it is "God's Gift To Nature"
Update June 4 2012
Great to see that couple of my Flickr friends have added water mark to their pic. Very creative as they take the trouble to strategically position the watermark . I will borrow this idea. Thanks guys!
Update Dec 17 2012
Nat Geo is now printing double the number of copies and has agreed to denote US$300/ to charity of my grandson choice - SPCA. Thank you Nat Geo.
Update Dec 25 2012
Today I received a very touching letter from a mother who requested this print. I am glad that a picture is worth a thousand words and holds special meaning and brings great joy.
So if you need a print please drop me a Flickr mail and your mailing address. Thank you.
My heart goes out to this special lady and this picture is my gift to her. Some of you are aware that my daughter was critically ill. In her own works she told me she nearly died in Oct. Now I rejoice becos she is making slow recovery ----. A small step at a time!
Hi Ric,
I have been searching for the photographer who took the absolutely beautiful photo of the colorful momma bird with it's babies under its wings. I've actually been praying I would find the original photographer. I won't get into the details, but for the last almost 2 years, I've been going through a really hard time with my health due to a horrible medical mistake that I suffered at the hands of a doctor. I will not let anyone tell me I am not going to get better. My husband and my son need me back. This picture holds such meaning for me...I've found it on other websites, which I am so sorry that people are stealing your work, and I have gone back to look at it a lot over the last several months. It brings me great comfort and the colors are just so beautiful and bright. I was wondering if it would be possible to buy a large print of it from you so that I can frame it and have it matted with a verse so I can look at it every day in my house. Would you mind letting me know if it's possible to buy a print from you? If so, what are the size proportions that you could print out for me? The place I want to hang it could handle an overall size of 24"x24" or 24"x28", which would be framed and matted with an inscription matted under it. Hopefully that description makes sense. Would you mind contacting back?
Update April 11 2016
Today i received a very comforting email from this lady and I thank her for helping mereach out to others who may need this pic becos of the sentimental/special meaning this pic means to them. For me this pic means a world to me bcos I am a dad to two precious daughters that I love dearly. No matter what -- I will always be there for them as long as I am on this good earth.
Hi Ric,
I must confess I posted your beautiful picture of the bird shielding her babies under her wings on a tweet and my FB page. I didn't take it from Flickr, I (wrongly) assumed it was in the public domain. Would you like me to remove it or would it be mutually agreeable to post a link to you for your credit and publicity? I am a solicitor working from home writing wills and trusts, hence the family theme, I have not tried to profit directly from the photo, just thought it was a nice image of caring. Sorry.
Kind regards,
Elizabeth
Thank you Elizabeth. There are lots of caring people on this good earth.
Superb large country pub with generously sized lounge bar and eatery. The blackboard menu is available Wednesday to Saturday with good value meals. Sunday lunch is a carvery. Impressive games room with full size snooker table. One ale served, usually Landlord or John Smiths Cask. Located in the centre of a small remote village but with fields and woods on two sides. Function room caters for large functions e.g. Weddings. Can be difficult to find, look for signs in village. Thursday night quiz from 8.30pm. Quiet background music does not interfere with conversation. Large beer garden for finer weather.
Thank you for your interest in my photography and for your generous offer to use my work for free to promote your book/magazine/website that you use to generate business for yourself. I would love nothing more than to help feed your family while mine goes hungry, because that is just the type of guy I am. Maybe I could feed them the free copy of the book you are offering me. I bet it would be tasty with some salt and pepper. I am also excited for the overwelming exposure that I will be receiving and the vast number of customers that will be directed my way because of that teeny tiny photo credit you tried to bury in the spine of your magazine. I just don't know what to say. You have done so much for me.
Now let me tell you the truth.
Good Photography is both hard work and expensive due to the price of equipment, the cost of gas, travel, insurance and self promotion. The shot that you have requested that I give you for nothing was taken inside of a 5 second exposure. The results of that 5 second exposure came from 12 road trips taken to the same location, 26 full tanks of gas, a $5,000 camera and priceless dedication to creating a good image and THAT is just the tip of the iceberg. There is no way I could ever calculate with any kind of certainty the amount of time and energy spent getting that one shot.
But I can tell you it wasn't freaking FREE!
Now with that being said, I would love to send you a HI RES version of the shot you requested. All you need to do is make my car payment this month but don't worry, I would be happy to give you "bill credit" with your payment and would gladly send you a free copy of the cashed check!
Ladies and Gentlemen,
PLEASE do not give your work away for nothing. Luckily for me I read somewhere very early on that if I priced my work at next to nothing, it would always be worth next to nothing.
I have received 7 emails this week requesting the use of my images for free including two companies that each had 2 seperate individuals email me! LOL. The Flickr Free Riders are out in full force. Please do not fall prey to these type of requests. Your work is valuable and if more people took a stand, the companies that NEED our images for their publications would gladly pay a fair price.
Remember this post and remind yourself that your work is priceless, until you give it away for free.
is about the heart"
Brighter Lives co-founder, Peter Towle from England, he is having a new challenge, Coast to Coast bike ride on June 9th, from Morecambe to Whitby. He wants to raise awareness and funds to help our children in Honduras. Would you help him? follow his instructions in the poster, thank you so much for helping and sharing!!
Divided reverse. Letter very generously translated by Nettenscheider, written sometime around 7.9.1914 and sent to the author's family, c/ -Herr Martin Bartelmann in Stemwarde, near Hamburg. Postage cancelled at Rendsburg on that date.
Wiki:-
"The 213th Reserve Infantry Regiment was raised in the Prussian Province of Schleswig-Holstein. As part of the 46th Reserve Division, R.I.R. Nr. 213 fought on the Western Front, entering the line in October along the Yser and remaining there until April 1915, when it went into the fight for Ypres. The division remained in the Yser region until September 1916.."
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Notes:
Reserve-Infanterie-Regiment Nr. 213 (+MG.-Zug)
Aufgestellt in Rendsburg (R.Stb., I. v. Ers.-Btl./I.R.Nr. 85), Schleswig (II. v. Ers.-Btl. /I.R.Nr. 84) und Flensburg (III. v. Ers.-Btl./Füs.R.Nr. 86). Insgesamt waren es 100 % Gediente.
Unterstellung:46. Res.Div.
Kommandeur:Oberst z. D. Ottmer (Bez.-Kdr. Flensburg)
I.:Major a. D. v. Loefen
II.:Major z. D. Charisius (Bez.-Offz. Altona)
III.:Major z. D. v. Lüderitz (Bez.-Offz. III Hamburg)
Verluste:2170 Offz., Uffz. und Mannschaften.
it was a very cold day and the saleslady has allowed to this stray dog to take a nap on the doormat of the accessories store, very kind of her
A note of appreciation to visitors
Thank you very much for visiting and for your supportive comments and favorites, Also, a big thanks to those following my Photostream. I understand that to do so means you've taken time out from your busy day, so please know that I am very grateful. I always try my best to return your generosity.
BUT PLEASE, no badges in comments. I call it dumping on the lawn.
Cheers!
Bob
p.s. Unless otherwise noted in my image Tags, all the images I post here are taken with an iPhone and processed entirely on an iPad using a wide variety of apps. Certainly not as capable as using a "real" camera and Photoshop, but I'm enjoying the liberation of simply seeing, capturing, fiddling, and posting a wider variety of images than was otherwise possible for me in the past.
Some wonderful and generous person here on Flickr learned that I intended to leave the Flickr community and they gifted me a Pro Account.
I can not express how very grateful I am to that person and want to thank them so very much.
However, given that it is Flickr there seems to be a problem in getting the Gift Pro account activated.
When I try to activate it all I keep getting is an error message that says " An Error Has Occurred, Please Try Again." and when I try again and again and again I still only get the error message.
It seems that Flickr is stuck on the " An Error Has Occurred, Please Try Again." message.
Hopefully this glitch gets resolved soon, I will try to activate the Gift Pro Account again tomorrow.
The darkness gives the space to light. It let's the light glow. If it was a devilishly bad thing, there could never be any light. The darkness is the most generous of all, if you think like me ;)
Generosity is nothing else than a craze to possess. All which I abandon, all which I give, I enjoy in a higher manner through the fact that I give it away. To give is to enjoy possessively the object which one gives.
Jean-Paul Sartre
I suggest to look at my stream on Fluidr .
Not my photo albeit, generously donated by my better half. However, it is my editing, as half the building was in late-day shadow. "Why not just one of your own photos, Paul?" you might ask. Well kids, here is a good photography lesson from your Uncle Paulie... when taking your camera out on a photographic excursion, always remember to put your newly recharged battery back in the danged thang! It works much better that way.
"Wildflowers for Buffalo" by Louise “Ouizi” Jones.
“To be rich in admiration and free from envy, to rejoice greatly in the good of others, to love with such generosity of heart that your love is still a dear possession in absence or unkindness - these are the gifts which money cannot buy”
Robert Louis Stevenson (Scottish Essayist, Poet and Author of fiction and travel books, 1850-1894)
"We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give."
Winston Churchill
Letter generously translated by xiphophilos; penned in Wettstetten on the 12th of October 1914 and addressed to Herr Georg Fritsch in Otzing Bavaria. Postage cancelled in Wettstetten the same day.
He writes: "There are 23 of us and 1090 Frenchmen. But they don't do anything, they are also very afraid of Bavarians."
French prisoners of war including a Chasseur Alpin and two Hussars sit at the feet of their Bavarian captors, just a couple of months after the commencement of la « Grande Guerre ».
Note on reverse generously translated by Immanuel Voigt..
„Ein 18 cm Langrohrgeschütz, welches in unserer Nähe stand in einem kleinen Wäldchen.“ (An 18cm long-barrelled gun, which stood near us in a small wood.)
Tenth of a number of photographs taken from an album belonging to a member of Feldluftschiffer-Abteilung 36, Ballon-Zug 92, depicting the aerial and terrestrial activities of the unit on the Western Front in 1917.
Each Armeekorps had one FLA assigned to it and within that formation were 2 to 5 Ballonzüge.
If you need wisdom, ask our generous God, and he will give it to you. He will not rebuke you for asking. But when you ask him, be sure that your faith is in God alone. Do not waver, for a person with divided loyalty is as unsettled as a wave of the sea that is blown and tossed by the wind. Such people should not expect to receive anything from the Lord. Their loyalty is divided between God and the world, and they are unstable in everything they do.
[James 1:5-8 NLT]
5 THINGS YOU SHOULD KNOW:
1. Like it or not, we are ALL sinners: As the Scriptures say, “No one is righteous—not even one. No one is truly wise; no one is seeking God. All have turned away; all have become useless. No one does good, not a single one.” (Romans 3:10-12 NLT)
2. The punishment for sin is death: When Adam sinned, sin entered the world. Adam’s sin brought death, so death spread to everyone, for everyone sinned. (Romans 5:12 NLT)
3. Jesus is our only hope: But God showed his great love for us by sending Christ to die for us while we were still sinners. (Romans 5:8 NLT) For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life through Christ Jesus our Lord. (Romans 6:23 NLT)
4. SALVATION is by GRACE through FAITH in JESUS: God saved you by his grace when you believed. And you can’t take credit for this; it is a gift from God. Salvation is not a reward for the good things we have done, so none of us can boast about it. For we are God’s masterpiece. He has created us anew in Christ Jesus, so we can do the good things he planned for us long ago. (Ephesians 2:8-10 NLT)
5. Accept Jesus and receive eternal life: If you openly declare that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. (Romans 10:9 NLT) But to all who believed him and accepted him, he gave the right to become children of God. (John 1:12 NLT) And this is what God has testified: He has given us eternal life, and this life is in his Son. Whoever has the Son has life; whoever does not have God’s Son does not have life. (1 John 5:11-12 NLT)
Read the Bible for yourself. Allow the Lord to speak to you through his Word. YOUR ETERNITY IS AT STAKE!
Divided reverse. Letter generously translated by Alpenkorps1915; authored in Mühlhausen on 1.6.1916 and sent to a Joh. Kaiser in Kussel, the author Martin Kaiser asks his brother to keep this photograph safe for him. Records indicate a Wehrmann Martin Kaiser died on the Western Front on 10.5.1917 but currently there is no way to tell if it is the same fellow depicted above. Postage cancelled in Mühlhausen (Th.) on 1.6.1916.
In 1905 and 1906, Prussia produced large numbers of these "experimental" helmets, with what was essentially the shell of a regular M.95 helmet covered with a layer of felt. The front and rear visors were left uncovered.
"Mühlhausen 1.6.1916,
Dear brother Joh. I am sending you my photograph, I hope you like it. Otherwise I'm still doing well, what I also hope for you. Farewell and many greetings from your brother Martin. To a hurried reunion! Please keep this photo for me in good hands."
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Notes:
In late 1917 and 1918 the 2nd Landwehr Div. participated in the fighting in the Argonne Forest. Late in the war, it faced the American offensive in the region.
Letter generously translated by Xiphophilos; penned in Wahn on the 7.11.1914 and addressed to his sister, Fräulein Fr. Hörstemeier in Herford. Postage cancelled the same day at the Wahn Schiessplatz.
7am - Coffee and milk.
11.30am - Peas with bacon.
3.30pm - Coffee and milk.
6.30pm - Tea with rum and sausage.
Schießplatz Wahn was a sizable military facility located south of Cologne. It was so large it hosted an artillery firing range as well as an airfield „Artilleriefliegerstation Wahn“.
This Lion is named M2 Sam... I saw him sitting on the cross roads,as I was waiting to see some action from him,.....to my surprise he started yawning very generously.and he was very close too.
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Thanks to the amazing generosity of Michael Tompkins I have had much enjoyment recommissioning a gorgeous Retina IIIC Type 028 with a little drop damage. Michael described it as a 'little extra' something sent to me with an equally lovely Retina IIF box and matching camera that I will share a separate post when I have it sorted.
The camera details are:
S/N. 57596
L/N. 5298818
Shut. 3017735
So the symptoms were that the shutter button didn't return properly and the camera locked out not allowing the camera to be wound on again without pressing the film release. I was hoping it might simply be that the little indent/shaft actuated by the shutter button might not be fully depressing... this proved not to be the case.
With regard to the drop damage there was minimal cosmetic evidence, just a little bit of deformation in the bottom of the front door, a visible bend in the bottom hinge plate and a bit of deformation in the black surround that the shutter/front plate lock buttons act against (it looks as though the button was forced backward into the housing) other than that everything appeared to be in good shape.
With the top housing off I discovered that the camera must have taken a direct hit on the shutter button (perhaps it had an extension or soft release button in place?). The little screw in the top of the release shaft below the shutter button was bent right over?! - I have never seen this before (see pics). I hoped that simply replacing the screw might sort it, but no...
I stripped the camera down further and found the following:
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1) The release shaft was also bent and to add to that the spring on its base was not correctly located.
2) The screw in the top of the wind shaft was sitting loose (I have seen this a number of times) - I don't think this had anything to do with the issue.
3) The screws in the bottom chrome trim plate were all sitting loose. I wonder if it had been that way from new as there was no evidence of new adhesive on the bottom leatherette.
4) The top housing, although not obviously dented, was distorted causing it to lift upward and backward fractionally and in turn bind on the shutter button.
5) The shutter shaft itself while not apparently bent was binding slightly in its bush down the side of the shutter and as a result not easily returning.
Fixes as follows:
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1) Removed the wind lever, bottom leatherette and plate and replaced release shaft, screw and spring
2) Tightened the wind shaft main screw.
3) Removed the front door and straightened the hinge plates.
4) Replaced the bottom hinge screw as the thread and head were in poor condition.
5) Straightened out the bottom edge of the front door and reattached.
6) Lubricated and exercised the shutter button/shaft until it moved freely.
7) Twisted the top housing until it sat flush on a flat surface before refitting.
8) cleaned inner viewfinder surfaces and lubricated as required and then reassembled base and top of camera.
All now working nicely!
There are couple of minor things left to look-at at some point:
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1) The bottom closing button on the front plate doesn't snap into place quite as positively as I would have liked. It is better than it was but I suspect the little locating pin on the back of the button is slightly bent.
2) The slower shutter speeds are a bit too slow - I will give it a shutter CLA at some point when I'm feeling so inclined but not right now.
3) The position '1' lockout isn't locking out. I have a suspicion this might be due to the shaft top being slightly distorted from the drop and not quite engaging with the cut-out in the underside of the film counter. I have absolutely ZERO intention of fixing this as I consider it a 'happy accident' and functional improvement!
Letter generously translated by xiphophilos; penned on the 29.12.1917 and addressed to a Georg Kramer in Strassburg. Postage cancelled on 31.12.1917. Einheitsstempel: A.[rmee] Kraftw.[agen] Staffel Nr. 1.
"Happy New Year 1918!"
The photographer's studio is transformed into a scene from a Baron Munchausen adventure; offering his clientele the opportunity to ride a modern version of a cannonball to the moon.