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The Dr Dinesh Parekh Camera Collection — Leonard Joel Pty. Ltd.

Auction House:Leonard Joel Pty. Ltd.Number of lots recorded:350
Sale Title:The Dr Dinesh Parekh Camera CollectionLots with images:318
Auction Location:MelbournePrices available:340
Date:18-Jul-2010
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Praxinoscope, E. Reynauld, Paris; the viewing drum mounted on a turned turned-wood column and base, with hand-crank mechanism, and a quantity of picture strips
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Robinson's patent photograph album, D. Millard & Co., Cincinnati, Ohio, USA; wood-body, metal and white-glass fittings, containing a strip of carte-de-visite photographs, visible through a glass window, exterior handles for changing moving the images, the base with paper label 'Robinson's patent photograph album. Patented April 11th 1865.'
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Polyrama Panoptique, France; the green-paper covered body containing six 20 x 14 cm. Views; green-paper bellows and mahogany lens panel with viewing lens
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Praxinoscope, theatre, E. Reynauld, Paris; the metal drum mounting on a turned wood stand, with brass candle holder, mirror, candle shade and chromo-lithographed inserts and a quantity of picture strips
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Midgette Movie Theatre, Midgette Toy Co., Mansfield, Mass. the coloured cardboard exterior with viewing aperture and hand-crank, containing one paper movie reel; Midgette Movie Re-Fills box containing two shows on eight books (2)
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Optical toys, comprising a Gramophone-Cinema Kinephone in maker's box; a Novitas Sales Co., Waltham, Mass.,Novitascope or Moving Pictures at Home; persistence of vision device; an alabaster peep egg showing the Thames Tunnel; W. Xm, Paris Les Ombres Japonaises; Pierre Pateau, The Magic Circle thaumatropes
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Mutoscope No. M.N.41, international Mutoscope reel Co, Inc, New York ; red and green painted metal case, brass turning handle, coin-operated mechanism, base coin-collecting tray, the side door opening to reveal one Mutoscope reel subject No. 7003 and electric illuminant, top-mounted advertsing panel with later painted card exotic dancer, the Mutoscope is in working order, with coin-mechanism and illuminant working correctly
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Kinora viewer, Kinora Ltd., London; the mechanism and viewing hood with single lens mounted on a wood base and seven Kinora reels, including numbers: 243, 300, 525, 4240
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Stereoscopic viewer, American novelty Co., Cincinnati; metal-body, with a pair of viewing lenses with metal hood and finger-trigger stereograph changer
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Boule magic lantern French; painted metal body, with chimney lens and lens cover
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Stereoscopic viewer, J. W. Cadwell, No. Reading, Mass. wood-body, the viewing lenses pivoting to view both side of a stereocard, two light windows, a pair of side-mountaing rotating handles, internal stereocard holders, the mechanism marked' Pat. Jan. 6. 1874'
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Midgette Movie Viewers, a pair, each with red-painted metal body, single viewing lens and hand-crank and a picture strip, (2)
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Magic lanterns, comprising a metal lantern with pressed decoration with lens, lens cover and chimney; a chromo lantern with lens, lens cover and chimney, (2)
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Magic lanterns, comprising an upright lantern in wood box, an upright lantern, (both incomplete); a Planck Gloria lantern with lens and chimney; two cinematographic lanterns, -7 (5)
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Optical toys and veiwers, comprising a graphoscope photograph viewer; a tinplate Uniscope viewer marked patent No. 11139; a Johnsons of Hendon Walt Disney film strip lantern; a Grappho-scope model 201 camera lucida in maker's box; a cardboard stereoscope; a modern zoetrope
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Magic lantern, British; mahogany-body with lacquered-brass fittings, condensing lens, brass bound lens, slide carrier and chimney
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Lantern slide viewer, British; 3. 25 x 3. 25 inch, mahogany body, brass-fittings, black square-cut bellows, and binocular viewing lenses with slide focusing
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Japan through the Stereoscope, Underwood & Underwood; comprising seventy-two stereocards in a book form volume
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Taxiphote automatic stereoscope No. 10901, Richard Freres, Paris; 45 x 107 mm, wood body (repolished), with a pair of focusing lenses, automatic slide changing mechanism, the base containing a quantity of stereo-glass positives
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Camera obscura tent prism, W. Watson & Sons, London; lacquered-brass, with rotating prism turned by two knobs
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Chambre Claire Universelle (camera lucida), French; bright-nickelled metal, with prism, twelve supplementary lenses and paper sheet noting 'W. Bly Sole Agent', in maker's fitted case
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Table-top stereoscope No. 6002, Ica, Germany; 45 x 107 mm, with hand-cranked automatic slide changing mechanism and pair of focusing viewing lenses
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The Liliputian camera obscura, the circular metal body with pivoting shade, brass bound lens, instruction sheet, in box stamped 'O. Boettger Adelaide'
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Photographic Pleasures. Popularly portrayed by pen and pencil, Cuthbert Bede, new and cheaper edition, with printed board covers, London: Day & Son, 1855
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A Manual of Photography, Robert Hunt, fourth edition, revised, red-cloth, London and Glasgow: Richard Griffin and Company, 1854 Includes a John Joseph Griffin catalogue of photographic apparatus dated April 1854
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Photographic Pleasures. Popularly portrayed by pen and pencil, Cuthbert Bede, first edition, blue cloth covers, London: T. Mc'Lean, 1855
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Photogenic Manipulation: Part 1 containing the theory and plain instructions in the art of photography, Robert J. Bingham; fifth edition, London: George Knight & Sons, [1847]
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Photographic books, H. P. Robinson: Picture Making by Photography second edition, revised, London: Hazell, Watson & Viney, 1889; The Photographic Studio and what to do in it, fourteenth thousand, London: Sampson, Low, Marston & Co., 1898
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A Manual of Photographic Manipulaton, Lake Price, 8vo., cloth covers, London: John Churchill, 1858
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Tom Wedgwood. The first photographer, R. B. Lichfield, cloth covers, inscribed to A. T. Storey, London: Duckworth & Co., 1903; with tipped in letter from Hope E. Wedgwood
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Folding reflex no. 101800, Ihagee Kamerawerk, Dresden; 6 x 9 cm., with focusing back, and a Schneider Xenar f/4. 5 12 cm. lens no. 127431, ; shutter sluggish
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Mentor Stereo Reflex No. 42489, Goltz & Breutmann, Dresden; 6 x 13 cm., with focusing back, viewing hood, and a pair of Carl Zeiss, Jena Tessar f/4. 5 9 cm. Lenses nos. 541650 and 541644 and inset retailer's label 'Sands, hunter & Co. London',; shutter defective
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Le Stereo-Panoramique Leroy No. 11122, France; 6 x 13 cm., metal-body, with a pair of Krauss/Zeiss brass bound Tessar f/6. 3 8 cm. Lenses, made to take either a stereoscopic pair or a single panoramic negative
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Tropical Carbine cameras, Houghton-Butcher Mfg. Co, London; rollfilm, comprising a No. 6 Ensign Carbine and a No. 6 watch pocket Carbine, each with bronzed-metal body and Carl Zeiss, Jena Tessar f/4. 5 lenses, condition; 5/6 (2)
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Widelux model 500 camera No. 20406, Panon camera Shoko Co. Ltd., Japan; 120-rollfilm, with rotating f/2. Lens, in maker's box
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Miroflex camera No. Q62721, Zeiss Ikon, Germany; 6. 5 x 9 cm., with a Carl Zeiss, Jena Biotessar f/2. 8 13. 5 cm. Lens No. 1125556,; shutter inoperative
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Rolleiflex 2.8F Aurum No. 8300994, Franke and Heidecke, Germany; 120-rollfilm, gilt metal fittings, lizard-skin body covering, with a Heidosmat f/2. 8 80 mm. Viewing lens No. 9548100 and a Schneider Xenotar f/2. 8 80 mm. Taking lens No. 13964199 in a Synchro-Compur shutter, with strap, in maker's presentation wood case, instruction booklet and warranty card, in maker's box, made in 1983 in a limited edition of 1500 pieces
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Hicro camera, Hess-Ives Corp., Philadelphia; quarter-plate, with lens in an Ultro shutter
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Exakta kine camera No. 482553
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Rolleiflex 3.5F No. 1781745, Franke and Heidecke, Germany; 120-rollfilm, with a Heidosmat f/2. 8 75 mm. Viewing lens and a Carl Zeiss Planar f/3. 5 75 mm. Taking lens No. 1788938, side-mounted meter (damaged), in maker's ever ready case, maker's box; a quantity of Rollei accessories
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Long Focus Premo hand camera, Rochester Optical Co., Rochester, NY; 7 x 5 inch, with polsihed-wood interior, red bellows, internal focusing screen, and lens in a pneumatic shutter
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New Ideal Sibyl no. E193, Newman and Guardia, London; quarter-plate, with a Ross Xpres 136 mm. f/4. 5 lens no. 86292 and single metal slides, in a fitted leather case
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Kodak Super six-20 No. 423, Eastman Kodak Co., Rochester, Ny; 620-rollfilm, with a Kodak Anastigmat special f/3. 100 mm. Lens No. 47, in maker's fitted leather case, ; meter inoperative
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Mentor reflex camera No. 38251, Goltz and Breutmann, Dresden; 6. 5 x 9 cm., with a Carl Zeiss, JenaTessar f/4. 5 12 cm. Lens No. 512059
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Stereo-Ernoflex camera, Ernemann, Dresden; 45 x 107 mm., with reflex viewing hood, and a pair of Ernemann Ernon f/3. 5 7. 5 cm. Lenses nos. 105463 and 105569,; mirror locked
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Baby Deck-Rullo camera No. L588781, Zeiss Ikon, Germany; 4. 5 x 6 cm., with a Carl Zeiss, Jena Tessar f/2. 7 8 cm. Lens No. 783535, ; (shutter defective)
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Verascope F40 camera No. 441082, Jules Richard, France; 35 mm., with a pair of Berthiot Flor f/3. 5 40 mm. Lenses nos. 287789 and 287600, in maker's ever ready case
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The British hand camera, J. T. Chapman, Manchester; quarter-plate, with internally-contained double darkslides, and a J. H. Dallmeyer brass bound lens set in a roller blind shutter, and inset label 'The British. J. T. Chapman. Photographic Chemist, Manchester'
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Stereoscopic reflex camera, American; 5 x 7 inches, with an Ilex Panagon viewing lens and a pair of Ilex Panagon f/4. 5 5. 25 inch lenses set into a stereoscopic shutter, condition; 5
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Graflex cameras, comprising a Folmer Graflex Corp. Finger print camera; an Ekc / Folmer & Schwing Dept. Rb Graflex series B reflex camera, (2)
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Twin lens reflex cameras, comprising a Welta, Germany Superfekta camera with a MeyerTrioplan f/3. 8 7. 5 cm. Viewing lens and a MeyerTrioplan f/3. 8 10 cm. Taking lens No. 657551; a Samoca Co, Japan, Samocaflex 35 II camera No. 552365 with a Samoca Ezumar f/2. 8 50 mm. Viewing lens and a Samoc'zumar f/2. 8 50 mm. Taking lens no
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Rapid Omega 200 camera No. 62365, Konishiroku, Japan; 2. 25 x 2. 75 inches, with a Super Omegon f/3. 5 90 mm. Lens No. 707964, in maker's box
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Kodak Bantam special camera No. 16315, Eastman Kodak Co., Rochester, Ny; 828-film, black-enamel and metal Art-Deco styled body, with a Kodak Anastigmat Ektar f/2 45 mm. Lens No. 17140 in a Compur shutter, in maker's evere ready case
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Amourette camera, Otag, Vienna; 35 mm., black-painted metal body, with two internal film cassettes, and an Extrarapidoptik 35 mm. F/6. 3 lens, in maker's leather case
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Contaflex 126, outftit Zeiss Ikon, Germany; comprising a Contaflex 126 camera with a Carl Zeiss Tessar f/2. 8 45 mm. Lens, in maker's ever ready case; a Carl ZeissDistagon f/2. 8 32 mm. Lens in maker's keeper; a Carl ZeissTele-Tessar f/4 135 mm. Lens
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Stereo Anschutz camera, Goerz, Germany; 9 x 14 cm., roll film back, with a pair of Goerz Dagor series III lenses nos. 231411 and 231418,; lacks focusing screen
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Stereo cameras, comprising a Belplasca in maker's case with a Belplasca stereo projector; a Stereo-Iloca; a Universal Stere-all, -5 (4)
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Exakta cameras, Ihagee, Germany; 127-rollfilm, comprising No. 478021, black, with a Carl Zeiss, Jena, Tessar f/2. 8 7. 5 cm. Lens No. 1915957; No. 456264, black, with a Meyer Primoplan f/1. 9 8 cm. Lens No. 723068; No. 543087, chrome, with an Ihagee Exaktar f/3. 5 7. 5 cm. Lens No. 661977, -6 (3)
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Mamiya RB67, Pro Sd gold camera No. 50195 Mamiya, Japan; 120-rollfilm/6 x 7 cm, black and gilt metal body, matching rollfilm back No. 500195 and Mamiya K/L 127 mm. F/3. 5 lens No. 500195, the camera body with plate 'Mamiya 1940-1980. 50 Years in Photography. Camera No. 50195. K18' and unengraved owner's name plate, with strap and lenshood, in maker's fitted presentation wood box, instruction booklet, box key and key fob, in maker's outer box
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Piccolette de luxe No. 396648, Contessa-Nettel, Germany; 127-rollfilm, tan-leather body covering and bellows, nickelled-metal fittings, with a Carl Zeiss, Jena Tessar f/4. 5 7. 5 cm. Lens No. 552572 in a dial-set Compur shutter; a black Piccolette with a Nettar Anastigmat lens and a Piccolette with a Carl Zeiss, Jena Tessar f/4. 5 7. 5 cm. Lens No. 500644, (3)
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Kodak Stereo camera No., Eastman Kodak Co., Roxchester, NY; 35 mm., with a pair of Kodak Anaston 35 mm. F/3. 5 lenses, lens cover, and instruction booklet, in maker's box
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Rollei-Marin Haas underwater housing No. 2313, Franke and Heidecke, Germany; green-gray painted metal body, glass viewing window and external camera controls
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Zeiss Ikon/Voigtlander cameras, comprising: a Vito III, a Bessa 66, a Perkeo I, Vitorex Dr, a plastic-body Simplex and a Contina 524/24; Voigtlander rangefinder and filters, -4
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The Portrait Flash Lamp, Chas. H. Nichols, St Louis, Mo. metal-body, spirit lamp and flash powder holder, metal plate The
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Teddy camera model A, Teddy camera Co., Newark, Nj; red and gilt-painted metal body, with lens and matching base-mounted developing tank
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British cameras, comprising a Houghton-Butcher 6 x 9 cm. Ensign special Reflex with focusing back, a Carl Zeiss, JenaTessar f/4. 5 15 cm. Lens No. 1130865 in a rim-set Compur shutter; a K. G. Corfield Periflex camera No. 520098 with a CorfieldLumar-X f/3. 5 50 mm. Lens No. 5110173H, in maker's ever ready case, (2)
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Tom Thumb camera-radio, automatic Radio Mfg. Co. Inc., Boston, Mass. the camera built-in to a transistor radio
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Stereoscopic hand camera, Germany; 9 x 18 cm., black bellows, focusing screen and pair of lenses, formerly from the Focus Museum, Haarlem, Netherlands, thence to Christie's south Kensington
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Curtis Color-Scout three-colour camera, Thomas S. Curtis Laboratories, Huntington Park, Cal. 2. 5 x 3. 5 inches, metal-body, three double darkslides, with a C. P. Goerz Am. Op. Co.,Dogmar 7. /2 inch f/4. Lens No. 57178 in a compound shutter, -5
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Professional model camera, Professional camera Mfg. Co., St. Louis, Mo. 5 x 4 inch, with internal half-silvered mirror, two film holders mounted top and back, with a Bausch and Lomb Tessar 8 3/8 inch f/6. 3 lens No. 3242308 in a compound shutter, designed to make two exposures simultaneously
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Baby Speed Graphic camera, Graflex Inc., Rochester, Ny; 2. 25 x 3. 25 inch, with a Graflex 23 rollfilm holder, Graflex flashgun and a Kodak Ektar f/4. 5 101 mm. lens no. ER1923 in a Kodak No. 1 Supermatic shutter
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Micro-press camera No. 4341, micro Precision Products, England; 5 x 4 inch, with a Schneider Xenar f/4. 5 150 mm. Lens No. 5756940 in a Synchro-Compur shutter and a Mpp Microflash flashgun
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Kodak cameras, Eastman Kodak Co., Rochester, NY; comprising a No. 3A Autographic Kodak special model B with lens in a dial-set Compur shutter; a No. 4 screen Focus Kodak, (2)
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Stereoscopic rollfilm camera, home-made; 120-rollfilm, a well-made camera adapted from an Agfa camera, with a pair of Agfa Agnar f/4. 5 85 mm. Lenses nos. C42042 and A56651
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Twin lens reflex camera, Ross, London (?); half-plate, with magazine back, viewing lens and a Dallmeyer Stigmat f/6 19 cm. Lens in a compound shutter
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Kodak Medalist camera, Eastman Kodak Co., Rochester, NY; 620-rollfilm, with a Kodak Ektar f/3. 5 100 mm. Lens No. EC2692 in a Kodak Supermatic No. 2 shutter
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Kodak shop display, items comprising a metal Kodak Brownies Verichrome film stand with internal shelves; a Kodak colour Processing illuminated sign, (2)
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Alfa-2 cameras, Wfzo, Poland; three examples in dark blue, light blue and grey, each with a Wfzo Emitar f/4. 5 45 mm. lens, (3)
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Photographic plates, nine plates each depicting a camera or photographer; an emamelled-metal plate depicting a photographer (10)
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Sanderson hand camera No. 15504
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Bergheil de luxe No. 58403, Voigtlander, Germany; 4. 5 x 6 cm., tan-leather body covering and bellows, gilt and alloy metal body, with a Voigtlander Heliar 7. 5 cm. F/4. 5 lens No. 221703 in a dial-set Compur shutter; deluxe film pack adapter in purse, three single metal slides and black film pack adapter; in a leather case
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Ikelite Slr underwater case, Ikelite, Indianpolis, Ind. transparent-plastic body, with external camera controls
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Bergheil de luxe camera, Voigtlander, Germany; 6 x 9 cm, green-diced leather body covering, green leather bellows, with a Voigtlander Heliar f/4. 5 10. 5 cm. Lens No. 769111 in a Compur shutter
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Twin lens reflex falling plate camera, British; 6 x 9 cm., rear viewing screen with leather hood, internally-contained single metal slides, with a brass bound viewing lens and a Goerz Syntor 125 mm. F/6. 8 taking lens No. 273285 in a pneumatic shutter
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Albemarle stamp camera, W. Butcher & Sons, London; quarter-plate, with nine pinholes, photograph holder and plate holder, condition 4 for making nine postage-stamp sized images on a single plate with one exposure
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Rolleiflex 3003 No. 703670012, Rollei, Germany; 35 mm, with a Rollei-Hft Planar f/1. 4 50 mm. Lens No. 3128832, in maker's case
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No. Cirkut camera No. 6996, Folmer & Schwing division, Rochester, Ny; rollfilm, with 120-rollfilm adapter, gears mounted in side compartment, Rapid Rectilinear lens, winding key, geared tripod head, and tripod legs, in maker's leather case
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Premo Sr stereo hand camera, Rochester Optical Co., Rochester, Ny; half-plate, polished-wood interior, focusing screen and dark slide, with a pair of Aldis, Birmingham, Anastigmat f/7. 7 lenses in a Thornton-Pickard stereoscopic roller blind shutter
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Beau Brownie cameras, Eastman Kodak Co., Rochester, Ny; Art-Deco styled coloured panels, comprising a red/black and tan/brown No. 2 cameras; a red/black and blue (strap replaced) No. 2a cameras, (4)
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Coloured VP Kodaks, Eastman Kodak Co., Rochester, NY; 127-rollfilm, comprising a red and a blue Vest pocket Kodak series III, (2)
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Coloured Vp Kodaks, Eastman Kodak Co, Rochester, Ny; 127-rollfilm, comprising a grey, a pink and two green Kodak petite cameras; a blue and a pink rainbow hawk-eye camera; and a green boy Scout Kodak, (7)
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No. 4 Kodak camera No. 7565, the Eastman Company, Rochester, NY; rollfilm. With string-set shutter,; lacks winding key
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C Daylight Kodak camera No. 930, the Eastman Company, Rochester, Ny; 5 x 4 inch, with string-set shutter, ; lacks viewfinders
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No. 3 Kodak camera No. 8319, the Eastman Company, Rochester, Ny; rollfilm, with string-set shutter and winding key
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Twin lens Reflex camera, London Stereoscopic Company, London; 5 x 4 inch, with a black band viewing lens and a black band taking lens No. 88051, and one plate holder, the camera front door with inset label 'London Stereoscopic Co., 106 & 108 Regent St, W. & 54 Cheapside, E. C. Patent', focusing screen and four darkslides, in maker's fitted leather case
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Guinea Detective camera, Walter Griffiths & Co., Ltd., Birmingham; quarter-plate, with simple shutter, one dark slides, and paper label 'Australian Agents: Baker & Rouse Ltd. Manufactured in England by Walter Griffiths & Co. Ltd.'
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Universal B Zt camera No. B1775, Walter Griffiths & Co., Ltd., Birmingham; quarter-plate, with simple shutter, one dark slides, and paper label 'Australian Agents: Baker & Rouse Ltd. Manufactured in England by Walter Griffiths & Co. Ltd.'
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Premier hand camera No. 017, Jonathan Fallowfield, London; quarter-plate, with internally-contained focusing screen and Newman and Guardia plate magazine, with a Wray, London lens in a pneumatic shutter, the camera appears to have been made for Fallowfield by Newman and Guardia
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1895 pattern hand camera No. 221, A. Adams & Co., London; quarter-plate, with internally contained Adams changing box, with brass bound lens
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Reflex cameras, comprising a Marion & Co, London; 3. 5 x 5 cm./postcard, horizontal, camera with a Goerz Celor 6. 5 inch f/4. 8 lens No. 303161 with a McKenzie-Wishart daylight slide; a Thornton-Pickard 6 x 9 cm. Speical ruby with a Carl Zeiss, JenaTessar f/2. 7 14. 5 cm. Lens No. 649433, -6
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