Bertsch Megascope Lens

Hammer Price
€1,080
incl. Buyer's Premium

Estimate
€1,500 – 1,900

This item is subject to margin scheme taxation and the premium is 24% if it remains in the EU. For shipments to a third country (outside the EU), the premium is 20%.

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Condition

B-

Manufacture Year

c.1860

Product number

AI_16_19407

brass projection lens for the Bertsch Megascope (Solarscope) 'enlarger' with rack and pinion focusing. Adolph Bertsch is best known for his Chambre Automatique, an all-metal wet-collodion camera which he demonstrated to the Société Francaise de Photographie in 1860. In order to enlarge the quite small negatives he designed the Magnascope solar enlarger in the same year.