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A Name in Gold
I wasn’t looking for a camera case that day. As a matter of fact, it was about the furthest thing from what I was looking for. I was hunting for a tool for door hinges. Because apparently that’s how these things go. How that turned into me staring at a nearly hundred-year-old camera case with somebody’s name pressed into it in gold, I still couldn’t fully tell you. One of those “you may be interested” things popped up, and mixed in with everything else were a few camera cases. One of them had something on it. That made me stop. At first, I figured it was just another old case…
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A Story Hidden in the Case
Some old cameras are just neat old cameras. Then every once in a while, one comes along that feels like a little more than that. This one meant something to me before I ever really looked it over. My wife was out of state with her mom that day, and somewhere in the middle of all that, she still took time to think of me and my hobby. She came home with three cameras. That meant a lot to me. Stuff like that stays with a man. She did not have to do it, but she did, and that made them special before I ever opened a case or looked…