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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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Daguerreian camera No. 2, A. Miller; replica; collapsible model, wood-body, brass fittings, with focusing screen, single dark slide, and a Darlot brass-bound lens, the inside stamped 'Reproduction / A. Miller / Aug. 1997 / 002.'
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Patent Eureka hand camera, W. W Rouch & Co., London; quarter-plate, mahogany-body, built-in changing bag, with a brass bound lens in a J. Kershaw shutter and inset maker's plate 'W. W. Rouch. London'
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Detective hand camera No. 1584 / 367, American; 5 x 4 inch, polished-wood body, brass fittings, internally-contained focusing screen and one double dark slide, the side-door stamped 'Pat. Nov. 11. 84 / Mar. 27. 1887 / Mar. 29. 1887 / Nov. 8. 87', with a brass bound lens
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Ensign tropical roll film Reflex camera, Houghton-Butcher Mfg. Co. Ltd., London; 120-rollfilm, polished-wood body, inset brass binding, tan-leather viewing hood, with an Aldis-Butcher Anastigmat f/3. 4 4 inch lens No. 153246
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Challenge tropical hand camera, J. Lizars, Glasgow; 3. 5 x 5 inches upright, with polished mahogany body, brass-fittings, red-leather bellows, and a Beck double-Aplanat f/7. 7 6 inch lens
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Facile hand camera, J. Fallowfield, London; quarter-plate, with mahogany-body, internal plate -magazine, metal shutter and brass-bound lens, the camera with inset plate 'Fallowfield's Facile. Miall's patent 4131'
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Folding view camera, the Seroco camera Co., USA; 10 x 8 inch, polished wood body, metal-fittings, red-leather bellows, with a Rapid Symmetrical 8 x 10 lens in a Regular pneumatic shutter,; body leathers removed and polished
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Studio 4-lens camera No. 502, American; 7 x 7 inch, wood-body, focusing screen, black bellows, with four lenses mounted on a brass lens panel, Used to produce carte-de-visit photographs on a single plate
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Ensign Popular Reflex Tropical model camera, Houghtons Ltd., London; quarter-plate, (lacks focusing back, polished mahogany body, brass-fittings, black leather bellows and viewing hood, and a Carl Zeiss, Jena Tessar f/4. 5 15 cm. Lens No. 432447
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The 1895 Instantograph field camera, J. Lancaster & Son, Birmingham; quarer-plate, mahogany-body, brass-fittings, with a Lancaster brass bound lens and Lancaster See-saw shutter
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Ruby stereoscopic field camera, Thornton-Pickard Mfg. Co, Altrincham; half-plate, mahogany and brass (lacks focusing back), black bellows, with a pair of brass bound lenses on a Thornton-Pickard stereoscopic roller blind shutter
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Chor-Identar repeating camera No. 114, European; 9 x 12 cm, wood-body, side-mounted operating handle and a Boyer, Paris, Saphir f/3. 5 50 mm. Lens No. 258020, the camera makes sixteen exposures automatically on a single plate by turning the hand-crank
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Daguerreotype outfit (replica), Ake Hultman, Sweden; comprising a camera, focusing screen, dark slides, coating box, fuming box, spirit lamp and plate buffing stock, all in a fitted wood box, made by Ake Hultman in 1997
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Korona home portrait view camera, Seebold invisible camera Corp., Rochester, NY; 7 x 5 inch, wood-body, metal-fittings, black bellows, repeating focusing back and a lens in a Gamex No. 2 shutter
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Studio camera, British; 7 x 7 inch, mahogany-body, brass-fittings, with focusing screen on a repeating back, black bellows, with a J. H. Dallmeyer Rapid Rectilinear lens No. 36969, single repeating darkslide and a double repeating darkslide stamped 'W. Allen, Manufacturer, Maidenhead'
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Nodark ferrotype camera, Popular photograph Co., New York ; 2. 5 x 3. 5 inch, wood-body, metal fittings, with lens, the handle marked 'Nodark Pat. Appld. For',; lacks viewfinder mirror
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Wing camera, Simon wing, U. S. A. 7 x 5 inch, wood-body, with focusing screen, the lensterling silverhutter on a vertically and laterally adjusting camera front, the brass front support marked 'Pat. Apr 19 '87', designed to make multiple 1. 5 x 1. 25 inch approx negatives on a single plate by moving the lens across the plate
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Mammouth portrait lens no. 2318, Jamin, Paris; brass bound barrel engraved 'Jamin Bte. Sgdg, Rue chapon 14, Paris', with rack focusing mechanism and mounting flange - 47 cm. long
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Talbot camera, replica wood-body, with rising front, hinged top, with Rathenow brass-bound lens, a replica of Talbot's original camera
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Studio camera, English; 9 x 9 inch, wet-collodion, mahogany-body, lacquered-brass fittings, with focusing screen and wet-collodion single darkslide, and a J. H. Dallmeyer1B patent lens No. 55976 (lens detached)
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Photographer's head clamp, Burke & James, Chicago; cast-metal, black-painted, with rising column, metal head clamp mounted on a ball joint, the base with legend Ingento No. 1 Burke & James, Chicago
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Studio camera, European; 30 x 30 cm., wood-body, nickelled-metal fittings, black bellows, plate-holder and a Meyer & Co. brass-bound 16 inch portrait lens no, 346810, mounted on an adjustable studio stand
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Tailboard camera, U. S. S. R; 13 x 18 cm., wood-body, nickelled-metal fittings, with a N-51 f/4. 5 21 cm. Lens No. 552019
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Studio camera, American (?); 5 x 4 inch, wood-body, repeating back holding focusing screen and double darkslide, black bellows, with a Darlot, Paris lens No. 35183
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Giroux daguerreotype camera, replica wood-body with rear hinged mirror (cracked), brass bound lens, in a fitted wood box
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The Students set tailboard camera, British; quarter-plate, mahogany body, lacquered-brass fittings, with a Clement & Gilmer brass bound Rapid Detectiv lens with rotary rubber-band shutter
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The 1899 Instantograph field camera, J. Lancaster & Son, Birmingham; half-plate, mahogany and brass, red-leather bellows, with a Lancaster patent lens and rotary rubber band shutter
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Field camera, British; quarter-plate, mahogany and brass, black bellows, with a Beck Neostigmar Series II No. 3 lens no. 150608 in a Celverex shutter and 'J. Lancaster, Birmingham' retailer's plate
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Korona pictorial View camera, Gundlach-Manhattan Optical Co., Rochester, Ny; quarter-plate, wood and nickelled-metal body, with lens in a Seneca Uno shutter
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Kinnear-pattern camera, Newton & Co., Liverpool; 8 x 5 inches, mahogany-body brass fittings, black square-cut cloth bellows, with a C. Burr, London 7. 25 x 4. 5 Rapid Doublet no. 4812 the barrel and Newman patent shutter both engraved 'Sold by Robert Abraham, 81 Aldersgate St. E. C.' and the camera with inset brass plate' Newton & Co
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Bermpohl three-colour camera no. 781, Bermpohl & Co., Berlin; 9 x 12 cm., polished-wood body, brass-fittings, top-mounted optical viewfinder, focusing screen and two blanking panels, three Bermpohl coloured filters, tan-leather bellows, and a Carl Zeiss, Jena Tessar f/4. 5 21 cm. lens no. 1569168 in a Compound shutter; a Ross Telecentric f/5. 4 17 inch lens no. 74491, in a wood box
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Stereoscopic sliding box camera, British; 7 x 3. 5 inches, wet-collodion, mahogany body, brass binding, double sliding box arrangement with internal metal guide bars, focusing screen and a pair of later Taylor, Taylor & Hobson lenses ands one darkslide (lacks sheath), -6
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Dublex ruby Reflex tropical camera, Thornton-Pickard Mfg. Co., Altrincham; half-plate, polished-wood body, lacquered brass inset binding and fittings, tan-leather viewing hood, focusing screen cover and bellows, brass strut bellows supports, with an Aldis Anastigmat f/4. 8 inch lens No. 5884, and three tropical brass bound double darkslides, -5
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Detective hand camera, Tisdell & Whittlesey, New York ; 5 x 4 inch, the outer wood case containing a wood camera with truncated pyramid red-leather bellows, waist-level viewfinder and shutter, -4 based on the address the camera pre-dates 1893
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Sliding box camera, French; 20 x 24 cm, daguerreotype/wet-collodion, polished walnut body, focusing screen, with a rack and pinion focusing lacquered-brass lens engraved 'Richard ??1/2 Lyon', two single darkslides with inserts and extension baseboard, Previously sold at Christie's south Kensington, 13 June 1997, lot 715
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Tailboard camera, Germany; 13 x 18 cm, mahogany-body, lacquered-brass fittings, blue cloth bellows, with a Ross, London lens and Thornton-Pickard roller-blind shutter
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Field cameras, comprising a J. Lancaster & Son, Birmingham; half-plate Instantograph, mahohany-body, lacquered-brass fittings, black bellows, with a Lancaster brass-bound lens with Lancaster rotary shutter and one double darkslide; a Thornton-Pickard half-plate Triple Imperial Extension, mahogany-body, lacquered-brass fittings, black bellows, with a Thornton-Pickard-Beck Symmetrical lens in a roller blind shutter, -6 (2)
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Detective hand cameras, J. Lancaster & Son, Birmingham; comprising a quarter-plate Rover camera with polished mahogany body and Lancaster See-saw shutter and a the Omnigraph hand camera, -6 (2)
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Magazine hand camera, German; 10. 5 x 8 cm., polished-wood body, integral plate magazine and changing bag, with lens and shutter
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Reflex hand camera, British; quarter-plate, polished mahogany body, integral plate magazine and changing bag, the sprung internal mirror with string control, internal roller blind shutter, with a Dallmeyer Stigmatic f/6 5. 3 inch lens, the mirror is pulled into position for use and released for making the exposure
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Royal Mail camera no, 76, W. Butcher & Sons Ltd., London; quarter-plate, polished-wood body, focusing screen, with fifteen lenses, simple shutter, the camera with maker's inset metal label and the carrying handle stamped 'Royal Mail'
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Sonnet tropical camera, Zeiss Ikon, Germany; 4. 5 x 6 cm., polished-wood body, nickelled-metal fittings, tan-leather focusing screen cover and bellows, with a Dominar-Anastigmat f/4. 5 7. 5 cm. Lens No. 826894 in a dial-set Compur shutter; two bright single metal slides
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Gem camera, J, Lancaster & Son, Birmingham; half-plate, mahogany-body, brass-fittings, with Lancasterfive-step repeating dark slide and a 12-lens set on a brass panel, condition 5; no focusing screen
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Daguerreotype replica camera No. 4, Voigtlander, Germany; 8 cm-diameter, lacquered-brass tapering cylindrical body engraved 'Voigtlander & Sohn in Wien', with rack and pinion focusing lens with brass cap, mounted on an adjustable brass column and base with levelling screws; matching brass plate holder, ; minor dings to body made by Voigtlander in a limited edition and based on the original 1840 camera by the same firm
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Dubroni outfit, Dubroni, Paris; comprising a 55x xx 55 mm for round images 4 cm. Diameter, wood-body camera with internal glass processing chamber, red-safe glass, the camera back with metal label 'Appareil Dubroni. Brevet??1/2 S. G. D. G, a Paris, 236 Rue de Rivoli', with a brass bound lens with push-pull focusing, pipette, glass funnel and chemical bottles, in maker's fitted walnut box, -6, the Dubroni camera was launched in 1864 and is considered the first 'Instant' camera, although strictly speaking…
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Wet-collodion processing tank
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Collodion dark tent and processing apparatus, Murray & Heath, London; comprising a wood collapsible dark tent, the front stamped Murray & Heath London'; a wood compartmentalised chemical and processing chest containing space for developing baths, pneumatic plate holder marked Murray & Heath, gutta-percha chemical jars, a glass chemical holder with paper label Iodised collodion and three glass bottles one with paper label Iron Developer, the box stamped 'Murray & Heath London'; a wood collodion chemical…
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Xit camera, Shew & Co., London; 3. 5 x 5 inch postcard, polished-wood and aluminium-alloy fitted body, focusing screen, with a GoerzDagor 150 mm. F/8 lens in a Vlute shutter
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Actinograph, Hurter & Driffield/Marion & Co., London; wood-case with sliding scales, instruction booklet and Marion & Co. Hurter & Driffield's Photo-Chemical Investigations, in maker's box
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Hand plate cameras, comprising a Knox 9 x 12 cm. Camera No. 19840 with polished wood body, blue bellows, focusing screen, lens and shutter; a Krugener 9 x 12 cm. Delta with red bellows, metal slide, lens and shutter, (2)
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