Hi all. I got an idea that requiers someone living in Stockholm, do we got any driven members for a fun task, diving in Swedish lantern history? //Fjellot
I'm actually not sure we have anyone living in Stockholm here, but I guess that statistically we should. What are you planning? To send him or her down to the fantastic basement of the Technical Museum? Or perhaps a trip out to Lilla Essingen?
*Edit. Original post said something like this: I was thinking about sending someone to the Royal library (Kungliga Biblioteket) to check out what there is in our area. In these archives exist all the instructions, catalogs, adds and more we desire.
Ah! I excluded them in my guess above since you don't actually need to visit them to get the things. Kungliga Biblioteket has a lot of stuff. But as I said; you don't need to go there in person. You just contact them and ask them to go through the material and then they tell you what they got. From there you can order a PDF on the stuff you are interested in. Either as a DVD or from a special download site. Much of what they have is already listed and on files, but the other stuff must be found and digitilized. So you'll have to pay quite a lot. After that the stuff will be open for public, so you can say that every time someone order this "special order", he will be the one who pays for the rest to be able to see it. Last time I ordered some old catalogues and other stuff there I payed around 2000 kronor.
Aye - I've paid for stuff from them. It's not cheap. Fortunately it's then put on CCS (or CPL) & we're fortunate that we have members with the originals that they also share.
Indeed. Considering the money we spend on these things, I think it's good that the catalogues are subscribers only nowadays at CCS too. The Lux stuff I posted there recently was from my last purchase from KB. I actually have the people there going at the moment. I was hoping that they could tell me which specific material they have from B.A. Hjorth, so I can handpick. I can't order all Hjorth stuff. It's too vast, and would probably render me sitting with a large heap of tool catalogues and just a smaller heap of paraffin apparatus and related.
