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[Rob.B]

Just aquired a Grafematic back by Wray, light usage with manual and the price is still on the original box; £12/7/6d reduced from £12/11/6d that's £12.37 1/2 reduced from £12.57 1/2 in todays currency. That was expensive back then.

To have the price in pre-decimalsation notation means it must have been sold prior to Feb 15th 1971 in the UK.

It seems a shame to use it, perhaps I'll look for another, and put this away for another decade or two.

Rob.B

[Les]

I'm pretty sure Wray ended their contract with Graflex in the late 60s
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[troublemaker]

I have an early Grafmatic and a couple of the later version. I prefer the older well broken in model, and that's the only one I seem to use as it works excellent and slides more easily than the slightly used stiff later one's. Never had a problem with the older one, evenin a changing bag, but the later one's, and I've had my hands on quite a few, seem to be harder to opperate and more prone to septum damage. Just my experience.

[Rob.B]

This one seems to work very smoothly. What suprised me was how (releatively) expensive they were to buy at the time.

[Les]

Here's some prices from my '72 catalog (all for 4x5)

riteway film holder 5.50
Film pack adapter 18.10
Grafmatic 38.85
RH-10 76.70
RH-50 170.45


Looking up some conversion history, the USD was trading for about .39-.40 GBP so a $38.85 Grafmatic would convert to £15. Prices may have been slightly cheaper in the late '60s. In the late '50s the Grafmatic was $28.00 and the Riteway was $4.95
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"In order to invent, you need a good imagination and a lot of junk" Thomas Edison

[troublemaker]

1953 Price List shows them at:
only $21.95