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Click here to subscribeA Hasselblad 500C Type 1 Medium Format Camera, 1957, chrome, serial no. CU30425, with Carl Zeiss Jena Planar f/2.8 80mm lens, chrome, serial no. 1598784, body, VG, shutter working, lens, G, shutter working, some very light separation to the perimeter, complete with additional A12 backNote: This is a first issue camera, with first issue viewfinder (strut type). This is the 425th 500c camera to be produced.
An Ihagee Exakta 66 Horizontal Camera, 1939, chrome, serial no. 554062, with Carl Zeiss Jena Tessar f/3.5 80mm lens, chrome, serial no. 2144877, body, G, shutter working, lens, G-VG, some internal haze, complete with Carl Zeiss Jena Tessar f/6.3 65mm lens, chrome, serial no. 2738604, body, VG, elements, VG, some light internal haze, and Carl Zeiss Jena Tele-Tessar f/6.3 250mm lens, chrome, serial no. 2354387, body, F-G, elements, VG, camera in maker's caseNote: Supposedly, only 350 horizontal models were produced.
A MPP Mk.VIII Large Format Field Camera,1963-86, black, with Schneider Symmar f/5.6 150mm lens, black, serial no. 10010214, body, VG, lens, VG, shutter working, some light internal haze, together with a Rodenstock Geronar f/6.8 210mm lens, black, serial no. 10744301, body, VG, shutter working, elements, VG-E, and Schneider Super-Angulon f/8 90mm lens, chrome, serial no. 9851047, body, G-VG, shutter working but requires attention, elements, G-VG, some internal haze, complete with 13 DDS and other accessories, in maker's case
A Rollei Rolleiflex 3.5F TLR Camera, 1958-60, black, serial no. 2207316, with Schneider Xenotar f/3.5 75mm lens, serial no. 5687324, body, G, shutter working, iris slightly sticking, lens, VG, some light internal haze, with maker's cap and caseNote: Lot imported under Temporary Admission. 5% UK import VAT will be charged on the ‘hammer’ and 20% UK VAT will be charged on the ‘buyer’s premium’ and invoiced on an inclusive basis under UK Margin Scheme rules.
A Rollei Rolleiflex 2.8F TLR Camera, 1961-80, black, serial no. 2438774, with Carl Zeiss Planar f/2.8 80mm lens, serial no. 3939301, body, G, shutter working, lens, VG-E, some very light cleaning marks, with maker's lens cap and caseNote: Lot imported under Temporary Admission. 5% UK import VAT will be charged on the ‘hammer’ and 20% UK VAT will be charged on the ‘buyer’s premium’ and invoiced on an inclusive basis under UK Margin Scheme rules.
A Rollei Tele-Rolleiflex TLR Camera, 1965, black, serial no. 2302099, with Carl Zeiss Jena Sonnar f/4 135mm lens, serial no. 2690792, body, G-VG, shutter working, iris slightly sticking, lens, VG, a few very light separation spots to perimeter of taking lens and viewing lens, with cap and maker's caseNote: Lot imported under Temporary Admission. 5% UK import VAT will be charged on the ‘hammer’ and 20% UK VAT will be charged on the ‘buyer’s premium’ and invoiced on an inclusive basis under UK Margin Scheme rules.
A Leitz Summarex f/1.5 85mm Lens, 1943, black, serial no. 593294, body, G, elements, G-VG, some light internal haze, light cleaning marks and one single tiny chip to front element, complete with maker's lens cap and leather caseNote: Lot imported under Temporary Admission. 5% UK import VAT will be charged on the ‘hammer’ and 20% UK VAT will be charged on the ‘buyer’s premium’ and invoiced on an inclusive basis under UK Margin Scheme rules.
A Panon Camera Co. Super Wide IIA Panoramic Camera, 1958, chrome, serial no. 51001, with Konishiroku Hexanon f/2.8 50mm lens, serial no. 86000, body, VG, shutter working, crudely engraved 'L4535' in two places, lens, G, some light fungus, in a maker's caseNote: Lot imported under Temporary Admission. 5% UK import VAT will be charged on the ‘hammer’ and 20% UK VAT will be charged on the ‘buyer’s premium’ and invoiced on an inclusive basis under UK Margin Scheme rules.
An Astro-Berlin C Tachar f/2.3 135mm Lens, black, serial no. 63420, body, G, elements, VG, some very light coating deterioration to front elementNote: Lot imported under Temporary Admission. 5% UK import VAT will be charged on the ‘hammer’ and 20% UK VAT will be charged on the ‘buyer’s premium’ and invoiced on an inclusive basis under UK Margin Scheme rules.
A Leitz 'Mountain' Elmar f/6.3 105mm Lens, 1933, black/nickel, serial no. 162186, body, G-VG, elements, VG-E, some very light internal haze, complete with maker's lens hood and capsNote: Lot imported under Temporary Admission. 5% UK import VAT will be charged on the ‘hammer’ and 20% UK VAT will be charged on the ‘buyer’s premium’ and invoiced on an inclusive basis under UK Margin Scheme rules.
A Cooke Super Speed Panchro f/1.3 58mm Lens, black, serial no. 242529, body, VG-E, elements, VG, some very light internal haze, with maker's capsNote: Lot imported under Temporary Admission. 5% UK import VAT will be charged on the ‘hammer’ and 20% UK VAT will be charged on the ‘buyer’s premium’ and invoiced on an inclusive basis under UK Margin Scheme rules.
A Cooke Deep Field Panchro f/2.5 100mm Lens, Bell & Howell Foton mount, chrome, serial no. 282706, body, VG, element, G-VG, some light cleaning marks, with Bell & Howell Co. lens hood and rear capNote: Lot imported under Temporary Admission. 5% UK import VAT will be charged on the ‘hammer’ and 20% UK VAT will be charged on the ‘buyer’s premium’ and invoiced on an inclusive basis under UK Margin Scheme rules.
A Leica III Rangefinder Camera, 1929, upgraded from Leica I, black, serial no. 20122, with Leitz Elmar f/3.5 50mm lens, nickel, body, VG, shutter sticking, some neat touch-up painting, lens, VG-E, some very light internal haze, complete with black paint lens capNote: Export model marked 'Germany' to shoeNote: Lot imported under Temporary Admission. 5% UK import VAT will be charged on the ‘hammer’ and 20% UK VAT will be charged on the ‘buyer’s premium’ and invoiced on an inclusive basis under UK Margin Scheme rules.
A Deardorff 4x5 Special Large Format Camera, View Series, serial no. 393, with Schneider Symmar f/5.6 210mm lens, chrome, serial no. 8583974, body, VG, lens, VG, shutter working, some light internal haze, together with a Schneider Super-Angulon f/5.6 90mm lens, black, serial no. 10548168, body, VG, shutter working, elements, VG, some internal haze, and with another lensNote: Lot imported under Temporary Admission. 5% UK import VAT will be charged on the ‘hammer’ and 20% UK VAT will be charged on the ‘buyer’s premium’ and invoiced on an inclusive basis under UK Margin Scheme rules.
A Shew & Co. Xit Aluminium Mahogany Strut Camera, 1910, 3¼×4¼", with Ross Zeiss Patent f/6.8 7¼" lens, brass, serial no. 14001, body, G, some modifications, lens mounted in G.P. Goerz shutter (unmarked), lens, G-VG, shutter working but sluggish, some light internal fungus, complete with ground glass screen
A Thornton Pickard Ruby Whole Plate Mahogany Field Camera, 1899-1908, serial no. 7503F, with Ross Symmetrical Anastigmat g/5.6 7½" lens, brass, serial no. 58380, body, G, shutter working, some later replaced aluminium bindings, lens, G-VG, some haze, together with Emil Busch Busch-Bis-Telar No.3 f/9 14" lens, brass, serial no. 18594, body, VG, elements, G, some light haze and light fungus, complete with four DDS in case
A Bell & Howell 2709 35mm Hand Crank Cine Camera, 1912, serial no. 17, with Goertz Hypar f/3.5 1⅝", brass, serial no. 392440, Hypar f/3.5 2", brass, serial no. 318524, and Hypar f/3.5 3", brass, serial no. 218084, body, G-VG, hand crank mechanism working, lenses, VG, some light cleaning marks and internal haze, complete with shooting crank handle, matte box arm, various narrative optical effects maker's - iris out and in, frame ratio modifiers etc, and original flight case covered in various shipping labelsNote: One of the lenses (the smallest) requires attention to be re-attached. It is currently being held in place as a visual fix.Note: This is one of the earliest Bell & Howell 2709 cameras that have come to auction or sale on the public market.
An Arri Arriflex 16mm Cine Camera, black, serial no. 9567, with four lenses including Schneider Arriflex-Cinegon f/1.8 10mm, Arriflex-Cine-Xenon f/2 16mm, Arriflex-Cine-Xenon f/4 25mm and Arriflex-Cine-Xenon f/2 50mm lenses, body, VG, lenses overall, G-VG, some light internal haze, complete with two additional Angenieux zoom lenses, two tripods, one 'baby legs' and one standard, Miller fluid head, 400ft magazine, matte box with filter and other various accessories, camera all in fitted cases
A Pair of Leitz Amplivid 6x24 Binoculars, black, serial no. 589960, body, F-VG, deterioration and loss of vulcanite from one side, optics, VG-E, some very light internal haze, in maker's case and boxNote: Lot imported under Temporary Admission. 5% UK import VAT will be charged on the ‘hammer’ and 20% UK VAT will be charged on the ‘buyer’s premium’ and invoiced on an inclusive basis under UK Margin Scheme rules.
Interior of Coal Mine Photographed by Electic Light, vintage brown toned silver gelatin print, c.1900-1910, label recto 'United States National Museum, Metallurgical Department, label verso ' Interior of Coal Mine Photographed by Electic Light, Kohinoor Colliery, Shenandoah, Schuylkill Co., PA, image 19.4cm x 24cm, on original card mount, further mounted modern card mount 46cm x 37cm
Important Document from Ernest Rutherford Concerning the Procurement of Radium, 1903 Rutherford, Ernest, OM, FRS, Hon FRSE (Born 30 August 1871 –Died 19 October 1937), New Zealand physicist who came to be known as the father of nuclear physics, autographed document signed E Rutherford, being a request to Alfred Isenthal for the purchase of Radium, dated Sept 11, 1903, 2pp single-sided folded quarto (26cm x 20.3cm), on headed paper ‘British Association for the Advancement of Science, SOUTHPORT MEETING, SEPT, 9th to 16th 1903, RECEPTION ROOM, SOUTHPORT’, leaf creased, small tear (5.2cm) to left centre, light foxing, loose.The text reads: Dear Mr Isenthal. Can you furnish me any pure radium in the future? If you can get any pure radium at present I would like £25 worth but I would like the (?) that its activity is about the same as tha bought from you which = first class stuff. I have seen same (?) the pure radium that is about 1/10 activity of your sample.If you have any spare please forward it me in Montreal as soon as you can.Address Physics BdgMcGill UniversityMontreal.when the account will be immediately settled. I am off to Montreal tomorrow so address reply (+ radium I hope also) to my Montreal address.Yours SincerelyE RutherfordThe letter also comes with an early period carbon copy, presumably an office filing copy.What is particularly interesting about this letter is at that it is dated 1903 which was the year Rutherford was investigating a type of radiation discovered (but not named) by the French Chemist Paul Villard, as an emission from Radium. Rutherford realised that this observation represented something different from alph and beta rays due to its much greater ability to penetrate. Rutherford named this third type of radiation Gamma Ray. All three of of Rutherford's terms are in standard use today – although other types of radioactive decay have been discovered since Rutherford's three types are among the most common.Note: this letter forms part of a collection recently discovered in the estate of Adolf Isenthal. Letters from this collection have not been previously published.Adolf Isenthal, was an electrical engineer who immigrated to Britain in 1889 from Mosel,Germany. He was an early supplier of X-ray equipment and, in 1898 along with and Charles Potzler set up ‘Isenthal, Potzler & Co.’ at 85 Mortimer Street, London, the company was often advertised as ‘The Central Depot for Radiographers’,Isenthal was a pioneer of early X-ray equipment the show room of his office can be seen in lot …. He also supplied Radium which introduced him to Lord Rutherford, Professor Rontgen, Peter Curie and many other famous scientists of the day. He was a early member of the British Institute of Radiology who in 1954 made him an Honorary Member. His company also supplied other types of electrical equipment, this brought him into contact with other famous engineers including Guglielmo Marconi who bought equipment from him, and john logie baird amongst othersIsenthal was also a member of the Royal Aeronautical Society, the institute of electrical engineers, the Physical Society, the Royal Institution and a Fellow of the Royal Photographic Society.On April 1st 1936 he founded the firm I. A. C. Ltd (Isenthal Automatic Controls) who manufactured mercury switches. He died on the very eve of the companies twenty-first anniversary on March 31st aged 90 after a long illness.
A Leitz Super-Angulon f/3.4 21mm Lens, 1964, chrome, serial no. 2035690, body, VG-E, elements, VG-E, some light internal haze, complete with lens hood, caps and maker's boxNote: Lot imported under Temporary Admission. 5% UK import VAT will be charged on the ‘hammer’ and 20% UK VAT will be charged on the ‘buyer’s premium’ and invoiced on an inclusive basis under UK Margin Scheme rules.
A Leitz Super-Angulon f/3.4 21mm Lens, 1969, black, serial no. 2328143, body, G-VG, elements, VG, some light internal haze, complete with lens hood and rear cap, in maker's boxNote: Lot imported under Temporary Admission. 5% UK import VAT will be charged on the ‘hammer’ and 20% UK VAT will be charged on the ‘buyer’s premium’ and invoiced on an inclusive basis under UK Margin Scheme rules.
English, c. 1850, a French polished pear or applewood frame holds the two Albumen prints behind glass windows, A typed caption is glued to the reverse which reads ‘ ‘These photomicrographs were made to illustrate the paper delivered by Delves to the Microscopical Society on 27th October 1852. However, these images were not actually included in the Journal. It would appear that these Early Years of Photomicroscopy – The beginnings of true microscopical images caught using a photographic process can be traced back to Daguerre in 1839 where he made a micrograph of the spinnerets of a spider. In England, Dancer was perhaps the first to create Photomicrograph using the same system. [i] Dancer’s images were of a flea that was caught on a 7x5in plate in around 1840. But he was not happy with the poor quality and coarseness of the images produced. A number of other English scientists are reputed to have produced photomicrographs. However, most of these claims are anecdotal and not verifiable.During the 1840’s popularity in capturing histological images was located mainly in Continental Europe where it rapidly developed. However, England was soon to catch up and in 1853 three different authors in two different journals shared the same pasted in alubumen print.The Delves connection. Delves, along with Shadbolt & were responsible for the first-ever published photomicrographs made using the collodion process and reproduced as an albumen print. These prints were distributed in transactions of the microscopical society of London and Quarterly Journal of Microscopical Science. Unfortunately, almost all of these original prints included within the Journals have now faded almost to nothing. According to Bracegirdle in ‘A History of Photography with the light microscope’ Delves appears to have written the first-ever note on Photomicrography and the results. Unfortunately, his account is quite short and in it he admits that others have, previous to him, used photography with the microscope but states ‘with little success. In his article he makes the following interesting statement :The larger group exhibited was produced by the 1inch object-glass, and the time given varied from ten seconds to one minute. The smaller group representing “scales of the Lepisma saccharina by the quarter-inch and one-eighth inch glasses was taken with a more sensitive collodion: and the time from ten to fifteen seconds”What is interesting here is that only the first larger group was included as a print in the two Journals with no representation of the second. This slide now offered would appear, again according to Bracegirdle’ to be the unpublished photomicrographs. The most probable reason these were not used would have been almost certainly on the grounds of cost.The positives for the Journals were printed by Nicolaas Henneman who had a long association with William Henry Fox Talbot. He began as Talbot’s personal valet at Lacock Abbey, later assisting Talbot in his early experiments with photography. In 1844, Talbot appointed Henneman the director of the first commercial production studio in Reading. The facility relocated to Regent St, London in 1847 and was taken over by Henneman and a partner the following year. It is most likely that this is where the Albumen prints were made.What is certain is that this albumen print is the earliest known photomicrograph made using the collodion process. The quality is of the image offered here of the Lepisma scales is of surprisingly high quality even now 170 years later
A Leitz Elmarit f/2.8 28mm Lens, 1964, Wetzlar, black, serial no. 2061771, body, E, elements, VG, some light internal haze, with rear lens cap and maker's boxNote: Lot imported under Temporary Admission. 5% UK import VAT will be charged on the ‘hammer’ and 20% UK VAT will be charged on the ‘buyer’s premium’ and invoiced on an inclusive basis under UK Margin Scheme rules.
Large Victorian 4in Telescope & Stand with Provenance, English/French, c.1879, signed to the body tube 'DOCTEUR Arthur CHAVALIER, Opticien Officer d Acudinire, 158 PALAIS – ROYAL 158, PARIS', and to the lens cap 'George Cecil Ives, November 1879', also the inside of the eyepiece mount is engraved 'J.B. 30 November 76', the telescope tube ( 142cm long) with rack and pinion focusing, star finder and lens cap, on substantial French polished mahogany & brass with large brass gearing to height adjustment, telescope with three eyepieces and filters, in large stained pine travel case, case length 151cm.George Cecil Ives (1 October 1867 in Germany – 4 June 1950) was an English poet, writer, penal reformer and early homosexual law reform campaigner. He founded the British Society for the Study of Sex Psychology. In 1931, the organisation became the British Sexological Society. Ives was the archivist for the Society whose papers are now held by the Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas at Austin. Ives met Oscar Wilde at the Authors' Club in London in 1892. Ives was already working for the end of the oppression of homosexuals, what he called "the Cause." He hoped that Wilde would join "the Cause", but was disappointed. He died in London but was buried in the village of Bentworth, HampshireCondition ReportThe stand is made of mahogany finished with French polish and in very good condition. The gearing and adjustments are all in very good condition and work well. The telescope optics are good with no delamination fungus or scratches other than light cleaning marks. The mechanics are good with no issues other than wear typical of age and use. The telescope has been completely refurbished and relacquered
A Leitz Summaron f/2.8 35mm Lens, 1962, chrome, serial no. 1947621, body, VG, elements, G-VG, some light internal marks to middle group, with maker's capsNote: Lot imported under Temporary Admission. 5% UK import VAT will be charged on the ‘hammer’ and 20% UK VAT will be charged on the ‘buyer’s premium’ and invoiced on an inclusive basis under UK Margin Scheme rules.
A Leitz Summilux f/1.4 50mm Lens, 1959, chrome, serial no. 1661983, body, G-VG, elements, G-VG, some light haze to middle group, complete with maker's lens hood and capsNote: Lot imported under Temporary Admission. 5% UK import VAT will be charged on the ‘hammer’ and 20% UK VAT will be charged on the ‘buyer’s premium’ and invoiced on an inclusive basis under UK Margin Scheme rules.
A Leitz Summilux f/1.4 50mm Lens, 1962, chrome, serial no. 1927477, body, G, elements, G-VG, some light internal haze and some light cleaning marks, with UVa filter and maker's rear capNote: Lot imported under Temporary Admission. 5% UK import VAT will be charged on the ‘hammer’ and 20% UK VAT will be charged on the ‘buyer’s premium’ and invoiced on an inclusive basis under UK Margin Scheme rules.
A Leitz Summicron Dual-Range f/2 50mm Lens, 1962, with ocular attachment, chrome, serial no. 1956177, body, VG, elements, VG, some very light fungus to the extreme perimeter of middle group, complete with lens caps and maker's boxNote: Lot imported under Temporary Admission. 5% UK import VAT will be charged on the ‘hammer’ and 20% UK VAT will be charged on the ‘buyer’s premium’ and invoiced on an inclusive basis under UK Margin Scheme rules.
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