I just found a bag of stuff in my attic.

[Joris Vd]

Hello everyone,

I found a bunch of regulators and fins in my attic, I will not be using any of the gear I found, except maybe the fins since the rubber seems to be in top condition.
I was wondering if people have heard of these brands and/or could date them? I don't plan on selling them.

So I found two regulators saying:
LA spirotechnique - Aquilon
Brevete 3GDG
Cousteau - Gagnan

One regulator saying
Nemrod - DELTA

one without text, just the weird s shaped logo you see in the pictures

One vest by Seemann-sub it says

Two pair of fins by the brand named neptune.
One says Duckfin the other says nothing

and one pair of SEBAK saver 111 fins.

one knife from AQUATA - made in Japan;


With kind regards,

Joris

 

[tbone1004]

@herman will likely know. If he doesn't, contact Alec Peirce who will definitely know and probably have the catalog from when they were sold if you're that curious
alec@thewindmillranch.com

 

[rhwestfall]

@simonbeans

 

[rhwestfall]

@1969ivan1

 

[lexvil]

The weird "S" is a scubapro 108 and it looks like a mk2 in the background.

 

[rhwestfall]

The weird "S" is a scubapro 108 and it looks like a mk2 in the background.

yes on the 108, but it looks like yoke is out the side... thus not a MK-2
[edit - I think you are right.... does look like an early mk-2/mk-3?. bad photo]

(SP timeline is down and has been for quite some time now....)

 

[Joris Vd]

I've added some extra photo's for the scubapro that should be more clear. Not sure about the relevancy but on the tubes it says do not exceed 400 psi

 

[rhwestfall]

Cool! An "older" Mk-II/Mk-III? in DIN

 

[lexvil]

The port with the gauge should be marked HP, even though it's a 3/8" fitting the hose should not be marked for LP use, if it is don't pressurize it. The 108 looks very nice, easy rebuild on both.

 

[David Wilson]

LA spirotechnique - Aquilon
Brevete 3GDG
Cousteau - Gagnan

La Spirotechnique functioned somewhat like the European end of US Divers. I found the first mention of an Aquilon regulator in a Spiro price list of 1963, no mention of it in earler catalogues. "Breveté" is French for "patented", by the way.

London's premier sporting goods store Lillywhites first placed the following ad in the March-April 1967 issue of "Triton", the magazine of the British Sub Aqua Club:

I also found the Aquilon in a 1969 Spiro catalogue, but as I don't have a complete set of their catalogues, I can't say how long the regulator remained available. I can't see an Aquilon in the US Divers catalogues I have access to.

As a vintage snorkeller, my interests lie more with the fins. Is there any indication on the fins as to their country of manufacture, which may also be European? I think the Sebak Saver fins may be modern finswimming competition fins made in the Baltic republic of Estonia, so not vintage. The "Neptune" fins interest me more as they look like vintage fins, but I don't think I've ever seen that model or logo before.