SAS is on the move.... .... we look forward to welcoming you Hambridge North 4 4 4 4 8 9 0 0 0 0 0 0 m 82 85 87 m 167500m 167500m 72 72 167000m 167000m 4 4 4 4 8 9 0 82 85 87 0 0 0 0 0 m m © Crown copyright and database rights 2019 Ordnance Survey 100048957.The representation of Supplied by: www.ukmapcentre.com road, track or path is no evidence of a boundary or right of way. The representation of features as Serial No:171499 Newlines is no eviden ceaddressof a property boundary. from January 2020: Centre Coordinates:448553,167185 Production Date: 03/10/2019 15:31:28 Special Auction Services Plenty Close Off Hambridge Road NEWBURY RG14 5RL 01635 580595 [email protected] www.specialauctionservices.com 1 Hugo Neil Thomas BID LIVE NOW @ Marsh Shuttleworth Forrester auctions.specialauctionservices.com (Director) (Director) (Director) Photographica Tuesday 22nd October 2019 at 10.00 For enquiries relating to the auction, Viewing: please contact: Monday 21st October 2019 10.00-16.00 Morning of Auction Otherwise by Appointment Saleroom One 81 Greenham Business Park Hugo Marsh Paul Mason Mike Spencer NEWBURY RG19 6HW Photographica Photographica Photographica Telephone: 01635 580595 Fax: 0871 714 6905 Email: [email protected] www.specialauctionservices.com Due to the nature of these items buyers must satisfy themselves on authenticity prior to bidding and returns will not be accepted. 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Buyers Premium: 17.5% plus Value Added Tax making a total of 21% of the Hammer Price SAS Live Premium: 20% plus Value Added Tax making a total of 24% of the Hammer Price Internet Buyers Premium: 22.5% plus Value Added Tax making a total of 27% of the Hammer Price Order of Auction Scientific Instruments 1-9 Photographs 10-121 Mahogany & Brass Cameras 122-131 Cameras 132-142 Medium Format Cameras 143-161 Medium Format Cameras 162-185 Rollei Cameras 186-202 Twin Lens Reflex 203-217 35mm Cameras 218-254 Nikon Cameras 255-284 Nikon Lenses 285-365 Nikon Accessories 366-376 Leica 377-407 Cine 408-421 Lenses 422-491 Saleroom One Hasselblad 492-527 81 Greenham Business Park Large Format 528-531 NEWBURY RG19 6HW Telephone: 01635 580595 Accessories & Binoculars 532-544 Fax: 0871 714 6905 Email: [email protected] www.specialauctionservices.com www.specialauctionservices.com 3 SCIENTIFIC INSTRUMENTS THE JOHN HANNAVY UNION CASE COLLECTION PART TWO John Hannavy started collecting Victorian photography in the early 1970 when starting out on an academic career which became increasingly involved in the teaching of photographic history in colleges in the north- west of English, finishing up as Professor in Photography and Photographic History at the University of Bolton. What started out as gathering together a few items to show 1. A 19th Century Set of Spherical to students during his lectures, grew into Glass Spirit Proofing Bubbles, each etched 5. A 19th Century Henry Crouch an absorbing passion, searching antique with appropriate numbers for spirit proofing, lacquered brass Compound Binocular fairs, fleamarkets and auction catalogues in fitted wooden case with lid, 85mm diam. Microscope, serial no. 955, with two to put together what became one of the £60-80 eyepieces, later objective, circular mechanical largest collection of thermoplastic cases stage and sub-stage condenser, in later and cased images in Britain. They have wooden case, 570mm high, circa 1880, P-F featured as illustrations in many of John’s £100-150 books on Victorian and Edwardian Britain over the years. Many of the items offered for sale here were illustrated in John’s well- received 2005 book Case Histories - the presentation of the Victorian photographic portait, published by the prestigious Antique Collectors’ Club. There are relatively few of these quintessentially Victorian objects offered for sale these days, and even fewer in pristine condition - early thermoplastic 2. An early 19th Century German is a notoriously brittle material. Collecting Hydrometer Set, four hydrometers with and research continued after he retired mercury bulbs of varying sizes, glass from academic life in 2005 to take on the flask, neck af, and modern replacement 6. A late 19th Century lacquered editorship the Encyclopedia of Nineteenth- thermometer, in suede-lined fitted mahogany- brass 3 inch Astronomical Telescope, with Century Photography for Routledge, but as veneered case, 440mm wide, G, case F lacquered brass and iron folding table tripod, the ‘thrill of the hunt’ was a large part of £100-150 in wooden case, body tube 36in. long, overall what kept John spending weekends searching F, dent to body tube £70-100 for new ‘finds’, the scarcer they got, the less the personal satisfaction, and the decision t o s t a r t r e s e a r c h i n g s o m e t h i n g d i ff e r e n t ! The descriptions for the collection are in the following sequence, giving information where known: Berg number, Berg scarcity, condition, casemaker, source, date, dimensions, image type, image size, photographer and address, image description 7. A 20th Century Jaeger Le Coultre Portable Aneroid Barometer Compendium, plated metal aneroid and eight-day clock with 3. A 19th Century Charles Collins thermometer, in folding leatherette-covered lacquered brass Wenham Compound metal book-form case, instruments G, not Binocular Microscope, the limb engraved tested, case P, leathette mostly missing; ‘C. Collins, Optician, 157 Gt Portland Street, formerly the property of Hugh Seely, Ist Baron London’, with pair of eyepieces, circular stage, Sherwood, Under-Secretary of State for Air two objectives, analyser, on Y-shaped foot, during most of World War Two 10. Figural Union Cases, 1-45/1-33, bull’s eye condenser, stage lieberkuhn, and £100-150 Scarce, F-G, repair to hinges and flake to back various slides, including paper-covered and corner, Samuel Peck and Co, Lyre in Wide specimens, circa 1900, in mahogany case 8. A 20th Century C P Goerz stained Portal/Lord’s Prayer, circa 1858, 124mm x with trade label, 510mm high, F, one focusing oak and plated metal Barograph, case with 105mm, Ambrotype, quarter-plate, full- wheel loose, later wooden base £200-300 rounded ends, talc glazing, 250mm wide, length seated lady at table; 1-22, Very rare 1930s, G £50-80 oval on back, G-VG, chip to one back edge, 4. A 19th Century Knight & Co Samuel Peck and Co, Capture of Major André lacquered brass Compound Monocular 9. A collection of brass and plated Frederick Goll, Painting by Asher Durand, Microscope, with three eyepieces, Knight Weights, including bell weights up to 7lbs, before 1857, 123mm x 102mm, Ambrotype, objectives, in cans, one with correction collar nesting weights, cylindrical weights and cup quarter-plate, seated lady, gilt highlights (2), on Y-shaped foot, in mahogany case, weights (a lot) £80-120 £60-80 470mm high, circa 1870, F, lacks condenser £80-120 4 www.specialauctionservices.com 14. Figural Union Case, 1-24, Very Rare, F-G, small hole by one catch, top left corner repaired, Littlefield, Parsons, and Co., 18. Geometric Union Cases, 11. Geometric Union Cases, 3-91, The Sweet Potato Dinner (General Marion 2-33, G, chip to one corner, Rare, Scovill Common, P-F, cracked and repaired, Samuel Sharing Yams) probably Frederick Goll, Manufacturing, Vine and Fruit Motifs around Peck and Co, Scroll/Hatched Oval, before Painting by John White (1781-1859), circa Geometric Centre, Frederick Key, circa 1860, 1857, 94mm x 83mm, Daguerreotype sixth- 1858, 120mm x 95mm, Ambrotype, quarter- 95mm x 84mm, Ambrotype, sixth-plate, plate, seated portrait of bald middle-aged man plate, seated lady in long plain striped dress, Seated Bearded Gentleman with walking with long ‘tonsure’ hair, image G-VG; 3-106, gilded £50-80 cane in left hand; 3-377, Common, VG, A P Common, G-VG, one small crack, Littlefield Critchlow and Co, Linen Oval, before1858, Parsons and Co, Floral Geometric, circa 1858, 76mm x 64mm, Ambrotype, ninth-plate, 85mm x 95mm, Tintype, sixth-plate, Portrait portrait of lady, gilded; 3-296, Common, F, of Young Gentleman; 3-175, Common, F-G, some cracks, Holmes, Booth, and Hayden, Littlefield, Parsons and Co, Scroll/Geometric, Scroll, circa 1860, 64mm x 76mm, Tintype, circa 1858, 84mm x 95mm, Tintypes, sixth- ninth-plate, seated bearded gentleman; 3-316, plate double portrait, mother and child Common, VG, Scovill Manufacturing Co, £80-120 Geometric/Scroll, circa1858, 65mm x 77mm, Ambrotype, sixteenth-plate, Portrait of young man £60-80 15. Floral Union Cases, 2-48, Scarce, G-VG, Littlefield Parsons and Co, Three Roses in oval, circa 1858, 83mm x 95mm, Daguerreotype, sixth-plate, Portrait of Young Lady with long hair pulled back, centre parting and lace collar, centre G, fading and oxidisation around edge; 2-40S, Scarce, G-VG, 12. Floral Union Cases, 2-21, Scarce, G, Holmes Booth and Hayden, Large Basket some corner and edge wear, Littlefield Parsons of Flowers, late 1850s, 94mm x 83mm, 19. Figural Union Case, 1-191, Scarce, and Co, Bunch of grapes within a fancy oval, Ambrotype and Tintype, double sixth-plate, VG, Littlefield, Parsons and Co, ‘American late 1850s, Ambrotype, sixth-plate, seated ‘Paret, 297 Bowery’, New York, stamped on Gothic’, young farmer and wife, circa 1858, bearded father, wearing top hat, gaberdine mats, portrait of young gentleman (tintype), 65mm x 75mm, ruby glass Ambrotype, cape and gloves, book (Bible?) in right hand, wife and child (ambrotype); 2-18, Scarce, G, ninth-plate, bearded middle-aged gentleman with little girl on lap; 2-32, Common, G, lining Littlefield Parsons and Co, Strawberry Motif, £60-80 missing, Littlefield, Parsons and Co, Urn of circa 1860, 95mm x 84mm, Ambrotypes, Flowers, 1850s-1860s, 95mm x 84mm, sixth- double sixth-plate, Elderly lady and gentleman plate, Ambrotype, seated bearded young man £100-150 with cigarillo in left hand £60-80 16.