Help with a SA-28 Military Camera in Blue Case Aircraft?

[angelag25904]

Hi All. I was helping a neighbor clean out her parents attic and came across this box that says Property of U.S. and inside is what looks like a camera of some sorts. It says SA-28 Camera Box and inside the silver box is a camera I believe. Does this have any value. I cannot seem to find another one on ebay or any other website. Please help. Here are a couple of pictures.

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[angelag25904]

If I need to give more photos please let me know

[browningautorifle]

I can't state actual value but I can tell you this much, we had a number of gun cameras that had lived in aircraft like Saber jets and CF 100s and such...there was lots of interest in them and lots of conversation about them from those interested parties. You can put it on Ebay and it will find it's price, there are people out there that collect photography gear of all natures and one of them will have to have it.

[angelag25904]

Thanks I think I will list on ebay and just see what it goes for. I cannot seem to find one like this on ebay listings. So I will try to describe it the best I can. Thanks Jim

[browningautorifle]

Best way would be to enter all the info you can find printed on it and let them search the numbers and descriptions...then they can't accuse you of mis-representing it. It should go well...

[CINDERS]

Do a world wide search on fleabay the hardest thing with finding an item is how the seller describes it and more often than not it is an obscure title that they give it good luck

[Peter Laidler]

And when you do let it go, please let us all know how it all went.

Interesting subject as we had an 'replica' air cooled cupola mounted Lewis gun that was clearly made from Lewis parts that had a pre-war trigger operated cine camera set-up mounted as part of the mechanism. Of absolutely no interest to us and we faced the same probloem in disposing of it to an a) interested and b) worthy home. The RAF weren't really interested but a private museum n Leicestershire (? - who have a taxiable Lancaster bomber) were interested so they had it for a nominal sum.

Apparently it was used by trainee aircraft gunners who were scored when the film was developed and analysed. But what a palava..........!