The Ultimate Antiques Shop Find!

Very interesting Vince, I love "antiques roadshow" and cannot remember a camera ever being discussed.
Too bad there was no more technical information given, but you know... geeks.
 
I wish they had more info about the camera itself. The little glass vials look like they hold the chemicals to develop Daguerreotype plates or glass plates, and it looks like there are little plate storage rails in the box too. What a neat little gadget!

Scott
 
There are deals out there. Some years ago my wife and I walked into a high end antique shop and I noticed what looked like an eveready case under a counter. I asked the clerk to look at it and it turned out to be a very clean M2 with a 50 Elmar 2.8. The price was $1100 and I commented that was a bit high. The clerk reached under another counter and pulled out another large case. It was packed with 2 visoflex, finders, bellows, large array of adapters, ball heads and 1 Zeiss son at and 7 Leica lenses including a mint 35 v1 Summicron. Also there was an essentially new IIIG with like new 5cm collapsible Summicron for $500. I walked out with the package for $1500 total. I kept the M2 and sold the rest for a clear $10,000+ profit.

I found in another antique shop a very rare 4x5 Baby Deardorff with 210 Tessar in an Ilex shutter and 5 new wooden Graphic holders. The set appeared to never have been used. Inside the GG back there were no rub marks from holders. I picked up the set for $800 and used it for several years. I sold the lens seperate of the camera but in total made about $3800.

I've found a few others and still looking. I just found a Technika V for dirt cheap but unfortunately it's a project.
 
I wish they had more info about the camera itself. The little glass vials look like they hold the chemicals to develop Daguerreotype plates or glass plates, and it looks like there are little plate storage rails in the box too. What a neat little gadget!

Scott

If you watch the entire episode it gives more info about the kit. One of the chemicals was collodion and another was cyanure (cyanide), so it might have been wet (glass) plate.
 
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