[rollei_list] Re: OT Leica finish on radios
- From: "Robert Creason" <rcreason-1@xxxxxxxxxxx>
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- Date: Wed, 24 Jul 2013 21:22:51 -0600
We called them 'Halliscratchers' in my time. I used several of them about
60 years ago and I still have an SX-88 on my bench in the garage, still
works good as new. It has appreciated to be worth about $3000 now.
BobC
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[mailto:rollei_list-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of John Jensen
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Subject: [rollei_list] Re: OT Leica finish on radios
Very interesting. All I can add to this information was the slang name used
by people at Raytheon (a supplier to Hallicrafters), Happicrappers. Maybe
it was used by others.
John
From: Richard Knoppow <dickburk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Sent: Wednesday, July 24, 2013 1:19 PM
Subject: [rollei_list] Re: OT Leica finish on radios
----- Original Message ----- From: "Jerry Lehrer" <glehrer@xxxxxxxxxx>
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Sent: Wednesday, July 24, 2013 11:38 AM
Subject: [rollei_list] Re: OT Leica finish on radios
> Richard,
>
> Wow! Collins ham gear. Out of my league. L I could afford when i got my
license, was a Hammarlund (sp?) SW receiver. The only transmitter
> was for radio controlled model airplanes. This was in 1946.
>
> Could that finish be Hammer-tone? That type of finish was used on Leitz
Ophthalmic and medical equipment.
>
> Please correct me if I am wrong.
>
> Jerry
>
There is a lot of Collins gear out there so someone must have been rich
enough to buy it but no one I knew. Its still too expensive despite this
stuff dating back to about the 1960's. The finish on the S line is not
hammertone but the fake leather sort of pebbled texture used by Leica on
many of its cameras. The story is that Art Collins had a Leica and wanted a
similar finish for the radios. There are pictures on the web that show it
pretty clearly. Collins and Bill Halligan of Hallicrafters fame started in
business at about the same time in the depths of the depression. Halligan
made mostly affordably priced good quality equipment while Art Collins went
after the most affluent of the market. There were still people with lots of
money even in the early 1930s. Both succeeded. Their stories are available
on the web and make interesting reading for those interested in
entrapeneures.
Hallicrafters also used a rather elegant finish on a lot of their early
equipment. This is called "crackle", often confused with wrinkle finish.
Crackle looks like dried mud and was also used by General Radio, a pioneer
maker of laboratory grade electronic measurement instruments. I think
crackle was also supposed to mimic leather. Anyway this is all very OT here
but I am not surprized that you know about radio equipment as well as
cameras.
--
Richard Knoppow
Los Angeles
WB6KBL
dickburk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
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