Mystery camera bag--name it, svp

[lesged]

I've had this camera bag for at least 40 years, but can't remember the manufacturer's name. In its day, it was the top of the line.  Dimensions are  12" x 8" x 91/2 "

Two of Mike Elek's former cameras: Rollei Automat MX* and Konica C35 were in this bag when I backed my car over the bag twice and also broke off  both of the Tiltall tripod's handles.

It is a rugged camera bag, but both cameras were badly damaged. The bag looks fine despite the dumb encounter, but it split the bottom open. It was not stitched, it was glued together.

Thanks in advance for any help in naming the bag.

Les

* The Rollei was sent back to Mike for possible restoration or to use as a parts camera, the Konica was totaled.

[LarryD]

Lester my Father that is a nice bag and I have seen a few like it.. Last one I saw I passed on because of the same thing I noticed the bottom was glued and not stitched. It was separating and I carry heavy cameras so I passed on it even though the rest was beautiful...

 I have no idea who made it...

Your Son Larry

[radiophoto]

"Thanks in advance for any help in naming the bag."

I'm feeling a little goofy today, so I'll take a shot:

How about "Mary"?

[Philip]

Has Saddleback Leather Company been around long enough to have made that one?  I have one of their bags and it seems indestructible.  "They'll fight over it when you're dead" is their motto.

Philip

[LarryD]

Pete I would name it Ripley I loved that big old girl fighting the Bitch Alien.

[Santiago Montenegro]

Frodo Baggins?

[LarryD]

We need Baby and Bath Water back..

[lesged]

Thanks all for your help in finding the manufacturer's name, even  the pithy  humorous answers.  LOL!

Larry, as you follow the Alien series, you must know that  the star bad guys in Alien: Resurrection (1997)was Doctor Jonathan Gediman. All people with that surname spelling are related to me. Brad Dourif was the actor.

The writer of that episode went to a prep school or college with my much younger red-headed cousin Paul Gediman. If I remember the story right, it was Paul, who ended up with the girl the two close friends had a fancy for.

Decades later, the Alien's writer gave the name  Dr. Gediman to his cinematic villain. I believe they never met after their school years. The heat of being miffed simmered all those years  and percolated up into a  nasty fictional character in the writer’s  sci-fi movie series, an example of a lingering grudge held all those years. There probably are other similar stories behind the name of classic villains.

[LarryD]

So you now have your answer. It is in the bag.

[martolod]

We need Baby and Bath Water back..

although i agree with CE in principle as to why he disabled BABW.......
yes it needs to be back.
NFF just has not been the same without a place to be a little goofy.it was a fun integral part of why i joined .

[radiophoto]

Yes, I miss BWTBW (or, without the lesser parts of speech, BBW, which means something else entirely).  I don't think I ever read a reason as to why it went away.  Was it the amount of space it was taking up?  Something like that?

I know people are taking advantage of other threads to bring it back, in a way...witness Mike's "vagina w/nw" thread. 

[jake]

Well, we'll just have to figure out ways wash the baby photographically rather than wordigraphically.

You know, as in "Hey mister, why don't you just take a photo? It will last longer."

[Olypen]

I have a vague memory of Perrin as the trade name of a tan leather camera bag in the 1950's; it was advertised regularly in the photo magazines.

[lesged]

Olypen,

As Groucho Marx would say in his TV show, as the duck drops down with some audio (was it a duck call?) "Congratulations! you said the magic word----"Perrin"."

My bag surely looks like it was made by Perrin.  It seems to be a combo of models 501 and 503 in link to eBay. Btw Perrin also made WW2 shoulder holsters, wedgees and PF leather sneakers.

Thanks so much Sir Olypen for giving the bag a a very probable manufacturer.  Mine has no label inside or on the bottom. Though mine has no double stitching, it looks more elegant.

http://shop.ebay.com/items/?_nkw=Perrin+leather+vintage&_sacat=0&_trksid=p3286.m270.l1313&_sop=12&_odkw=camera+leather+vintage&_osacat=0

[radiophoto]

Les, the duck would drop down with a fanfare from the studio orchestra (sometimes it was the riff from "Stars and Stripes Forever" to which somebody put the words, "be kind to your web-footed friends, any duck may be somebody's mother"), but it wasn't the "magic" word, it was the "secret" word.

As a Marxophile, more appropriately a Grouchophile, I must take the pains to correct you, good sir. A small point, but it seems to matter.  Ahem.  I thank you.