Summitar* 2/5cm (Summicron prototype)

Hammer Price
€12,000.00 incl. Buyer's Premium

Estimate
€10,000.00 – 12,000

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serial number

812274

Condition

A/B

Manufacture Year

1950

Product number

AI_34_37435

very rare prototype of the later Summicron with thorium-oxide element, in correct focusing mount with diaphragm to 22; a small series of these lenses has been produced for testing in 1950 - three years before the Summicron came on the market, the lens is in excellent original condition (cap, plastic keeper)