#PLUMB BETTY PLUMB BOB FULL#
Read Wolf’s 20 frequently asked questions and answers about plumb bobsĭownload and read the Plumb Line Continuum (click on the second link on the page for the full document) Read the brief report of the Istanbul meeting in 2006 Visit the International Plumb Bob Collectors website. I want to leave with one final thought about plumb bobs:Īll plumb bobs on earth point to the same spot! I will simply share my photographs and several links and documents with the permission of Wolfgang Ruecker.
Small world! When I sat down to write this post, I wanted to include some information about the plumb bobs, but I am going to leave that to the experts. This morning, I got a reply from Wolfgang who knew Doğan as a fellow collector and told me in his message that they had the first meeting and exhibit of the association in Istanbul. A ten-minute photo opportunity made me learn about an obscure hobby and some of its adherents in very unexpected ways. In the meantime, I have learned of the editor who continued publishing the Plumb Line Continuum, Nelson Denny and later, I read about his passing in 2012.
#PLUMB BETTY PLUMB BOB PDF#
After reading many pages, a collection of writings in a PDF publication Plumb Line Continuum and looking at many photographs I decided to write to the site owner Wolfgang Ruecker. I dug in and tried to learn a little more about the lowly, utilitarian, or gorgeous collectible plumb bobs.
During my research, I stumbled on a site, International Plumb Bob Collectors with a wealth of information. I did some research online and discovered that there are many collectors of plumb bobs, a few sites dedicated to them, and some remarkably interesting documents. This might have left an important part of the display out.Īs I sat down to write this post, I realized I had nothing to say about the elements in the collection other than my interaction with them. Since the collection was presented in an office environment, other objects in the background forced me to cut off some of the frames at unusual places. My interest was primarily photographic, and I took frames that had qualities that I liked. I asked for his permission to photograph them, and in about 10 minutes I photographed as much of the collection as I could. Some looked perfectly functional, yet others offered almost meditative qualities. They all looked quite interesting, but some were like pieces of art, crafted to show off the skills of the artisan making it rather than a utilitarian tool we all think of. The waiting area of his medical office looked like a museum, and in Plexiglas cases, hung hundreds of plumb bobs of many shapes and sizes along with other related measurement instruments. Doğan Başak in Istanbul this past October. That’s exactly how much I knew about them until I met Dr.
Most readers know or at least have heard of plumb bobs as a kind of weight at the end of a string.
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