COLOGNE, Germany – Auction Team Breker’s 135th specialty auction on Saturday, Sept. 26, will encompass the 170-year history of photography and film in more than 700 lots. LiveAuctioneers.com will provide absentee and Internet live bidding.
The auction features rare collector’s items and exhibition pieces including classic cameras, classical photography, historical photo and movie literature and advertising, most from dissolutions of collections and estates.
Highlights are a Voigtländer Wien Petzval portrait lens No. 3000, 1845; Emil Busch, Nicola Perscheid lens 6/18 cm, circa 1912; and a Steinheil, Munich, Achromat No. 18, 1855. Other classic lenses in the sale are by Lerebours, Gasc & Charconnet, Dallmeyer, Alexis Millet, Harrison & Schnitzer, Ross, Grubb, and Darlot.
Classic cameras include a Stirn’s Concealed Vest Camera No. 1, 1886, a Compagnie Française de Photographie, Photosphère All-Metal Camera (9×12), a Redding & Gyles LUZO first version, a circa 1851 Chadburn sliding box daguerreotype camera, and a circa 1900 Anschütz Reflex Camera No. 6. Movie cameras include a Carpentier, Paris, Cinematographe Lumière, 1895; a Pathé Frères, KOK, 1913; and an Akeley of Fox News, 1915. There will also be a large collection of stereo cameras, stereo viewers and stereo prints, magic lanterns and magic lantern slides, as well as large collection of early original literature and dealers’ catalogs.
