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Auction Team Breker specialty sale March 25 offers more than cameras

Tom Hoepf
Tom Hoepf
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NASA Hasselblad MKWE No. 284, c. 1985, with lens cap, changer and viewfinder (camera inoperative). Estimate: €7,000-€10,000. Auction Team Breker image

 

COLOGNE, Germany – Auction Team Breker will sell classic cameras and collector’s items from the 170 years of the history of photography and the early days of the moving image on Saturday, March 25. Absentee and Internet live bidding is available through  LiveAuctioneers.

This 576-lot offering represents Auction Team Breker’s 141st specialty auction of photographica and film. Items range from the earliest of photographic images to modern collectible cameras.

Camera buffs will be competing against collectors of space memorabilia for a NASA Hasselblad MKWE No. 284, circa 1985. Though the Swedish-made camera is inoperative, it is in excellent cosmetic condition.

A French stereo daguerreotype of a nude woman shot in a studio is certain to entice collectors of early photographic images. Considered extremely rare, the hand-colored double image, circa 1845, is from the former collection of Peter Elfelt (Peter Lars Petersen), an early photographer and filmmaker from Denmark.

 

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French stereo nude daguerreotype, circa 1845. Estimate: €7,000-€9,000. Auction Team Breker image

 

Magic lanterns projected images on a screen to the delight of audiences in the late 1800s. A Kinematador No. 790 (below) produced by Ernst Plank, Nuremberg, in 1897, is in its original wooden box and comes with a dozen slides as well as celluloid discs in a rotating holder for projecting moving pictures.

 

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Kinematador No. 790 magic lantern outfit by Ernst Plank, 1897. Estimate: €3,000-€4,000. Auction Team Breker image

 

Mutoscopes, early coin-operated motion picture devices that worked on the same principle as a flip book, were once common amusements at arcades in the early 1900s. One such peep show viewer (below) that Breker is presenting in the auction March 25 is loaded with a Mutoscope roll titled Love in the Office. Rather than cranking the device by hand, this model is equipped with an electric motor that starts the show rolling as soon as the coin is dropped into the chute.

 

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Mutoscope with Mutoscope roll titled ‘Love in the Office,’ or ‘Caught by His Wife,’ c. 1920. Estimate: €2,800-€4,000. Auction Team Breker image

 

Leica collectors will find more than 50 lots of classic 35mm film cameras, lenses and related equipment made by the renowned German manufacturer.

 

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