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11. WestLicht Photographica Auction
2:00 AM PT - May 26th, 2007

offered by
WestLicht Photographica Auction

(Peter Coeln GesmbH)
1070 Vienna,
At Auction

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Before May 22nd by appointment Between Tuesday, the 22nd May, and Friday, the 25th May from 9 a.m. till 6 p.m. (CET) On Saturday, May 26th from 8 a.m. till 11 a.m. (CET)

808 Items

Lot Description Estimates
(EUR)
1 Lot 1

Technical Literature 1840
7 volumes of Dingler´s "Polytechnisches Journal" published b...

3,000
-
4,000
3 Bids
2 Lot 2

Le Daguerréotype Susse Ferres
A previously unknown sliding box Daguerreotype camera for 16...

500,000
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700,000
22 Bids
3 Lot 3

Original Ground Glass for a Voigtländer Metal Camera
Lot consisting of the ground glass for a Voigtländer metal c...

5,000
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7,000
1 Bid
4 Lot 4

Hermagis Daguerreotype Lens
early brass lens engraved 'HERMAGIS Opt'n Fab't Bte Paris, a...

600
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800
3 Bids
5 Lot 5

Daguerrian spirit burner
blue and white porcelain with floral wreath decoration, heig...

500
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600
1 Bid
6 Lot 6

Sliding Box Camera
daguerreotype camera for exposures on 1/4 plate, varnished w...

4,000
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5,000
1 Bid
7 Lot 7

Secretan Sliding Box Camera
1/1 plate, beautifully crafted early sliding box camera made...

3,500
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4,000
1 Bid
8 Lot 8

Sliding Box Stenope Camera
simple, but quite unusual and rare wooden pinhole camera for...

1,800
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2,200
1 Bid
9 Lot 9

Deyrolle Scenographe
strut folding camera for single or stereo exposures 10x15cm,...

3,000
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3,500
1 Bid
10 Lot 10

Enjalbert, France Le Touriste
13x18cm, dry-plate, polished walnut body, integral magazine ...

4,000
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4,500
1 Bid
11 Lot 11

C.P Stirn Vest Camera No.2
concealed camera for 6 exposures on one round glass plate, p...

1,800
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2,000
1 Bid
12 Lot 12

Krügener Simplex Magazine
very rare non-focusing TLR with changing mechanism for 24 pl...

1,800
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2,200
3 Bids
13 Lot 13

Bloch Paris Photo Cravate
famous detective camera concealed in a cravat, flat metal bo...

20,000
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23,000
1 Bid
14 Lot 14

Goerz Anschütz Detective Camera
9x12cm, exposures on dry plates, walnut body with metal plaq...

3,800
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4,200
3 Bids
15 Lot 15

Le Photosphere 13x18cm
all-metal camera, very rare size 13x18cm with oval front, or...

5,000
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6,000
1 Bid
16 Lot 16

Le Photosphere "Silver"
9x12cm, early camera in extremely rare polished-silver versi...

7,000
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9,000
6 Bids
17 Lot 17

Hermagis Velocigraphe
detective-style drop plate magazine camera for 9x12cm plates...

1,000
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1,400
4 Bids
18 Lot 18

Josef Wanaus Universal-Detective Camera
13x18cm, polished wood, black bellows, metal behind the lens...

500
-
600
11 Bids
19 Lot 19

Kruegener Delta Magazine Camera
9x12cm detective camera, polished wood with magazine for 12 ...

800
-
1,000
1 Bid
20 Lot 20

Loman & Co. Amsterdam T.I Reflex
1/4 plate, box style SLR, polished wood, brass fittings, com...

2,800
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3,000
4 Bids
21 Lot 21

Japy & Cie, France Le Pascal
rollfilm, 40x55mm exposures, leather covered metal body, the...

500
-
600
14 Bids
22 Lot 22

Peterson Copy Anschütz
9x12cm, Numa Peterson, Stockholm, wonderful manufactured lux...

2,400
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3,000
1 Bid
23 Lot 23

Adams De Luxe Hand Camera
very rare De Luxe Hand Camera no.3 pattern no.121, quarter-p...

1,000
-
1,200
1 Bid
24 Lot 24

Redding London Luzo Hand Camera
for rollfilm 3 1/4 x 4 1/4 inch, very rare mahogany box-dete...

2,800
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3,500
6 Bids
25 Lot 25

Newman & Guardia Nydia
9x12cm, very unusual, folding plate film camera, nice Ross l...

1,000
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1,200
8 Bids
26 Lot 26

Sigriste Paris 6.5x9cm
small format Sigriste with 12cm Heliar lens, in perfect work...

5,000
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6,000
9 Bids
27 Lot 27

Bellieni Folding Strut Camera
9x12cm, mahogany body, red leather bellows, with Krauss/Zeis...

800
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1,000
2 Bids
28 Lot 28

Lerebours et Secretan
large landscape lens with a focal length of approx.100cm in ...

3,000
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3,500
2 Bids
29 Lot 29

Müller Berlin Petzval Lens
early brass lens, engraved: Muller Berlin, height 15cm, bras...

200
-
300
5 Bids
30 Lot 30

C.C. Harrison & Joseph Schnitzer Globe Lens
Very rare American Globe lens with stops wheel, approx. 10" ...

1,400
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1,800
1 Bid
31 Lot 31

Voigtländer (Orthoscop)
Voigtländer & Sohn in Wien und Braunschweig, very rare and v...

1,400
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1,800
1 Bid
32 Lot 32

E.BUSCH. Rathenow. Preussen Petzval lens
very early Busch soft-focus lens with a slot for Waterhouse ...

700
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900
1 Bid
33 Lot 33

Reports by the Juries
"Great Exhibition of the Works of Industry of All Nations, 1...

80,000
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100,000
4 Bids
34 Lot 34

Tenerife, Astronomers Experiment, C. Piazzi Smyth
published in 1858 in London, leather-bound, stamped in gilt ...

600
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700
9 Bids
35 Lot 35

The Holy Land, Egypt, Constantinople, Athens, etc. etc." published 1865 by Day...

600
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700
13 Bids
36 Lot 36

Leica: Ur-Leica Dummy 940231
mint dummy camera of Ur-Leica, produced by Leitz in Wetzlar,...

450
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550
11 Bids
37 Lot 37

Leica: I Mod.A Elmax
early version of the Elmax, technically identically with Ana...

12,000
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14,000
4 Bids
38 Lot 38

Leica: I Mod.A
early top plate, 4-element Elmar lens engraved Elmax 3.5/5cm...

800
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1,000
13 Bids
39 Lot 39

Leica: I Mod.A Elmar
clean camera in original condition, matching FODIS rangefind...

800
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900
4 Bids
40 Lot 40

Leica: I Mod.A Elmar 'Close Focus'
rare camera with 'close focus' Elmar in fantastic, original ...

1,600
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1,900
4 Bids
41 Lot 41

Leica: I Mod A Hektor
fully original and rare Leica I Hektor, never restored, in v...

3,000
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3,800
6 Bids
42 Lot 42

Leica: I Mod.B 'Dial-set Compur'
early Compur Leica with Dial-set Compur shutter in original,...

4,000
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5,000
16 Bids
43 Lot 43

Leica: IC/0 with Compur Elmar 3.5/5cm
IC with standard mount in used condition with rare 3.5/5cm E...

1,000
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1,400
14 Bids
44 Lot 44

Leica: MIFILMCA Late Type
rare camera with dial set Compur-shutter in almost new condi...

5,000
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6,000
8 Bids
45 Lot 45

Leica: Standard black
Standard body in good condition, nickel 11" Elmar 3.5/50mm, ...

400
-
500
7 Bids
46 Lot 46

Leica: Standard chrome
in perfect working condition with Elmar 3.5/5cm no.261591, c...

500
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600
3 Bids
47 Lot 47

Leica: Standard chrome Post-war
rare post-war Standard with vulcanite patch in good conditio...

1,600
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1,800
4 Bids
48 Lot 48

Leica: Leica 250 GG
Leica Reporter for 250 exposures in good working condition, ...

2,000
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2,500
14 Bids
49 Lot 49

Leica: II Mod.D black Dummy
rare dummy camera with matching dummy Elmar 3.5/50mm, in ver...

800
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1,200
1 Bid
50 Lot 50

Leica: II Mod.D black/chrome
from Standard converted to II Mod.D with Elmar 3.5/5cm no.64...

700
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900
9 Bids
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