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Dubroni

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€17,400
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Product number: AI_8_25609
Starting Price €7,000
Estimate € 10.000 – 12.000
Condition : B
Manufacture Year : c.1865
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Dubroni

4cm diameter round exposures, walnut body, amber glass bottle interior with a Dubroni slide focusing brass-bound Petzval type lens, in maker's original oak box with printed lid, interior inscribed ``PHOTOGRAPHIE DE POCHE BREVETE S.G.D.G. APPAREIL DUBRONI 9 RUE AUBER 9´´ six Dubroni bottles with numbered wooden stoppers, pipette, glass funnels, walnut plate holder and a cardboard box of glass plates, the Dubroni was the first camera to include an internal system for processing. The plates were first sensitized then developed and fixed inside the camera which had a fixed glass bottle inside the body of camera. All the nesscessary materials required for processing were supplied in the outfit box. The earliest models had an amber glass bottle interior and the later ones a porcelain interior. The cameras proved to be very popular and later a range of larger sizes were made. The Dubroni name is an anagram of its inventor Jules Bourdin whose father did not want the familly name associated with the invention.Complete Dubroni outfits are extremely rare in any form and this is also in fantastic condition with original instructions

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