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Tom_cheshire
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Username: Tom_cheshire
Post Number: 36
Registered: 04-2009
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Saturday, June 06, 2009 - 10:12 am: | 
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How many of you were around when Shutterbug Ads started up in 1971? I remember there was also a magazine titled "Glass, Brass and Wood" or something like that? Are any of you old timers (like me) who advertised in S.A.? |
Petercat
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Username: Petercat
Post Number: 86
Registered: 01-2007
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Saturday, June 06, 2009 - 07:49 pm: |
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I never advertised, but I bought from shutterbug. Lots of weird stuff there! |
Marty
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Username: Marty
Post Number: 28
Registered: 11-2008
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Sunday, June 07, 2009 - 08:08 am: |
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I do very little selling, but I sold a couple of items and bought a few more from Shutterbug Ads. I still have a 1973 issue of Shutterbug tucked away in the basement... 24 8.5 x 11 inch pages on newsprint. I have no idea why I've kept it, aside from being a pathological packrat.
In some ways, the hobby had an added dimension of fun before there was so much published information. There was a sense of discovery when you'd try and figure out what you had. |
Tom_cheshire
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Username: Tom_cheshire
Post Number: 38
Registered: 04-2009
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Sunday, June 07, 2009 - 01:54 pm: |
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I had an earlier one than that when it was standard 8.5 x 11 with the red/white checked top and horribly exposed photo on front (by the publisher, Glan Patch). But I remember all those yellow newspaper sized editions that came along later on.
Yes, you are right. It is always fun to be "fresh" in a hobby and discovering new stuff. I miss that too.
I was looking through a Petersen's Photographic from 1994 and was bewildered when I suddenly realized, oh, yes, 1994. There wouldn't be any http:// addresses included on the bottom of the ads. But it looked weird. |
Jeongyun
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Username: Jeongyun
Post Number: 1
Registered: 04-2009
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Monday, June 08, 2009 - 07:45 am: |
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I stumbled upon this http://books.google.ca/books?id=H4h-5pobY0kC&printsec=frontcover
Glass, Brass, & Chrome
By Kalton C. Lahue, Joseph A. Bailey
Is this what you were talking about? |
Tom_cheshire
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Username: Tom_cheshire
Post Number: 40
Registered: 04-2009
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Monday, June 08, 2009 - 09:31 am: |
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Yes, that is it. Glass, Brass and Chrome. This was a short few pages of advertising like Shutterbug Ads. There were other contemporary buy/sell/trade publications but they all died off quickly when everyone went to Shutterbug Ads.
The only publication still existing is Camera Shopper (http://www.camera-shopper.com). |
Marty
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Username: Marty
Post Number: 29
Registered: 11-2008
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Monday, June 08, 2009 - 01:50 pm: |
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I think "Glass, Brass, and Chrome" is a hardcover book... A pretty good one, as I remember it. One of the very earliest camera collecting books had a similar title, but it was written by a guy named Gross. One of the first books made specifically for collectors that I found really useful was "Photographic advertising from A to Z." It was just a book of reproduced ads that could be used to date and identify things. Two more volumes came out, and I still like them, and I'd expect they probably turn up for sale now and then.
I bought a number of things from John Craig, who sent out periodic catalogs, and there were a few other dealers along that line. John Craig has a website now, and has some items for sale, but he deals mainly in reprints of instruction manuals and stuff. A good, honest, fellow. |
Tom_cheshire
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Username: Tom_cheshire
Post Number: 44
Registered: 04-2009
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Wednesday, June 10, 2009 - 07:07 am: |
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Yes but there was a small quarterly publication with the same name. It was about 15 to 20 pages at most. The "ads" were half page or whole page there were more like a classified than a display ad. Very simple publishing. |
Bill_alexander
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Username: Bill_alexander
Post Number: 22
Registered: 12-2006
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, September 01, 2009 - 03:40 pm: |
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I received the first issues of SA when they first started out in 1970-71..still have those editions somewhere..They were down to earth,,many interesting ads..when you could deal directly with the owners..I have also received
the RangeFinder Mag for free since 1975..I years
later re-Subscribed..but found the New Shutterbug
Ads..not Ads But Advertising..Few articals that
seems a re-hash etc..of the current crop of all
the digital craze..my how times have changed.. I
would enjoy just a regular Amount of For sale or
Trade Publication kind of like the Original S-A |
Tom_cheshire
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Username: Tom_cheshire
Post Number: 161
Registered: 04-2009
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, September 01, 2009 - 03:43 pm: |
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Bill have you tried Camera Shopper?
The only publication like Shutterbug Ads still existing is Camera Shopper available both online and as a paper publication (http://www.camera-shopper.com). |
