$17,625
Historical Daguerrian Camera Outfit by Anthony, New York, half-plate, with rosewood veneered body, chamfered front and back, sliding box focusing, double-hinged top with bone knobs, sprung internal divisions containing 5 1/2 x 4 1/4-inch ground-glass screen and plate-holder, and a rack-and-pinion focusing brass-bound lens with cap, on maple tripod with inverted acorn feet, (old split in camera front panel, later ? tilting top); an E. & H.T. Anthony & Co. darkroom lamp with maroon ruby glass shade (chipped); an advertisement for Anthony's National Daguerrian Depot ; and an invoice for $25.23 to John C. Reeve from E. Anthony, dated March 1853, for plates and cases in varying formats. Literature: The camera in this Lot is illustrated in Bill & Estelle Marder, (1982), Anthony, the Man, the Company, the Cameras , p. 44. It is the most complete The most complete American daguerrian camera to have been offered at auction recent years. Note: Edward Anthony was born in New York City in 1819. He studied science and civil engineering, graduating from Columbia College in 1838, at the age of nineteen. The following year, in France, Louis Jacques Mande Daguerre announced his photographic process to the world. At that time of Daguerre's breakthough, Samuel F.B. Morse, the inventor of the electro-magnetic telegraph, was in Paris trying to patent his own invention. He was quick to see the importance of daguerrian photography and, upon his return to New York, helped arrange the first exhib Read more…
Auctioneer:
Skinner
Date:
2006-07-29
