I Buy Early Cameras

My latest purchase is an enamel Agfa advertising sign featuring a cartoon boy holding a roll film camera with flash. He is stood on a large Agfa box advertising Isopan ISS roll film. It’s large. Very large. I’m not sure what I’m going to do with it but it’s colourful and fun. Graeme

A recent auction featured nearly thirty wood and brass cameras with many being by Lancaster and Thornton Pickard. There was a good selection of these British cameras from the late nineteenth century. The most expensive wood and brass camera did not sell. It was described as a fine British mahogany sliding box wet plate camera. […]

Cameras that look like a pocket watch are not usually rare but recently a Lancaster pocket watch camera sold for £17,000. Wow ! It was small (2×1.5 inches diameter) and was nickel plated (not gold). It had a six part sprung telescopic lens and a sprung brass drop shutter. The camera had an engraved case […]