Linda Schellhaas
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Hello. I'm new here and first off let me apologize if my post is not appropriate for this forum. If that is the case, perhaps someone could redirect me in another direction.
I'm at a loss about what to do with boxes full of photography equipment that belonged to my father-in-law. My husband inherited it all when his dad died but he just put it upstairs at my FILs house and never went through it. We kept the house as an investment property and were slowly rehabbing, but my husband passed away this past year and I have made the decision to sell that house and I'm trying to figure out what to do with the contents. It goes against my "repurpose and reuse" philosophy to see everything just go into a dumpster, so I'm hoping to find out if there are any resources out there for these types of "analog" items. Time is getting short, as the house may be sold in the next 30 days or so and I don't think I will have time to go through and research/catalog everything and I don't have the room to move it all into my current house.
There are cameras, lenses and supplies of all kinds, which I know next to nothing about, like flashed opal glass and ferrotype plates and things I don't even know what they are..... way outside of my knowledge base. Best guess is that cameras are from the 1950 to maybe 1980 era, based only on that FIL wasn't doing much in that area after 1980's; I have no idea what is functional or not.
Anyway, thank you for your patience in reading through my post if you've gotten this far. If anyone has thoughts as to whether these items have any resale value, I'd appreciate your input. Are there people out there that do bulk purchases of these types of things? Or is my best option to try to donate them somewhere. I'm open to any ideas and am not looking to make money - just don't want to see everything hauled off to the landfill if there are other options.
Thank you, Linda
I'm at a loss about what to do with boxes full of photography equipment that belonged to my father-in-law. My husband inherited it all when his dad died but he just put it upstairs at my FILs house and never went through it. We kept the house as an investment property and were slowly rehabbing, but my husband passed away this past year and I have made the decision to sell that house and I'm trying to figure out what to do with the contents. It goes against my "repurpose and reuse" philosophy to see everything just go into a dumpster, so I'm hoping to find out if there are any resources out there for these types of "analog" items. Time is getting short, as the house may be sold in the next 30 days or so and I don't think I will have time to go through and research/catalog everything and I don't have the room to move it all into my current house.
There are cameras, lenses and supplies of all kinds, which I know next to nothing about, like flashed opal glass and ferrotype plates and things I don't even know what they are..... way outside of my knowledge base. Best guess is that cameras are from the 1950 to maybe 1980 era, based only on that FIL wasn't doing much in that area after 1980's; I have no idea what is functional or not.
Anyway, thank you for your patience in reading through my post if you've gotten this far. If anyone has thoughts as to whether these items have any resale value, I'd appreciate your input. Are there people out there that do bulk purchases of these types of things? Or is my best option to try to donate them somewhere. I'm open to any ideas and am not looking to make money - just don't want to see everything hauled off to the landfill if there are other options.
Thank you, Linda