[LargeFormat] Handle for 11x14 Korona

[Clive Warren]

At 20:07 24/03/2003 -0800, Richard Knoppow wrote:
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Jim Hemenway"
>
> > The handle on my 11x14 Korona has gotten a bit brittle and
>I'm concerned that it might break some day when I don't expect it.
> >
> > Does anyone here know of a place which sells replacements?
> >
> > http://www.hemenway.com/Leather_Handle.jpg
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>   The orignal would probably have been the flat kind held in
>place by a loop or cleat at each end.

Jim,

On the 4x5, 5x7, and 8x10 Koronas the handle is a flat piece of leather 
embossed with the Korona name and triangular shaped at the ends to hold it 
into the brackets. There is no buckle or shaped part to the handle.  I 
don't have an 11x14 but agree with Richard that your handle is probably a 
later replacement.

Although the original Korona handles do their job well and are very flat on 
the top of the camera, I have always felt that they are not particularly 
over engineered and do not ever pick up the cameras only by the handle. 
Still, in some cases the handles are approaching 100 years old so perhaps 
when new owners would have had more confidence in them. Given that the 
design did not change for many years they must have been strong enough.

You can see the handle on my 8x10 if you pop over to 
http://www.f32.net/discus/  - select "keyword search" under the Utilities 
menu and type in korona, the camera should come up in the first few hits.

Cheers,
            Clive