Camera Accessories
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- Date
- n.d.
- Material
- metal; glass; velvet; leather; cardboard
- Catalogue Number
- 104.41.1269 a-i
- Description
- 9 Leica camera accessories stored in a white cardboard box with a lid wrapped with paper imprinted with the photography of a red and white checker linen table cloth; label on top: “KNOTT’S BERRY FARM PRESERVES”; label on the side of the lid: “made by Knott’s Berry Farm / BUENA PARK, CALIFORNIA”; a …
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- Title
- Camera Accessories
- Date
- n.d.
- Material
- metal; glass; velvet; leather; cardboard
- Dimensions
- 9.0 x 14.0 x 26.0 cm
- Description
- 9 Leica camera accessories stored in a white cardboard box with a lid wrapped with paper imprinted with the photography of a red and white checker linen table cloth; label on top: “KNOTT’S BERRY FARM PRESERVES”; label on the side of the lid: “made by Knott’s Berry Farm / BUENA PARK, CALIFORNIA”; a white label sticker has been applied on one of the small sides of the lid with handwriting in black ink: “LEICA ACCESSORIES”.The box contains in three compartments the following items:a) chrome Leica “Summar” lens; manufactured between 1932 and 1939 length: 4 cm; diameter at base: 4 cm; collapsible; composed of 6 elements; marked on the outer ring: “Summar f=5cm 1:2 No216644 / Ernst Leitz Wetzlar”; aperture ring has no clicks and may be set at any aperture between f/2 and f/12,5; diaphragm with 6 blades; scale in feet (from 3,5 to 100 and infinity); includes 2 caps, one embossed: “Leica”b) magnifier / chimney finder engraved on tube: “E. LEITZ WETZLAR Germany”; length: 5.4 cm; diameter at the base: 6 cm; black plastic cap with embossed brand: “Leica”; bayonet mountc) brown leather envelope (7 x 6 x 3 cm) closed with a press button containing a black-rimmed checkered lens (3.5 cm diameter)d) black enamel and chrome lens extender/extension tube; length:13.5 cm; diameter: 6 cm; scale marked in feet (from 5 to 300 and infinity); “Germany” engraved on outside ring; packed in a hand sewn red velvet tubular pouch with green fabric hems and yellow and purple cross stitch at the seamse) Leica “Elmar” lens with extender/extension tube attached; black paint (wearing off on some parts of the elements) and chrome; in production from 1931 until 1964; length: 8.4 cm; diameter: 4.5 cm; front element engraved in white: “ Ernst Leitz Wetzlar / Elmar f=9 cm 1:4 No636431”; 2 caps attached, one black painted metal and the other plain metal with “Leica” impressed on top; packed in a red velvet pouched with embroidered multicoloured motifs (eyelet and curls), hand stitched green hemf) black wrinkle-textured lens extender/extension tube in 3 parts, with a plain metal cap at one end; length: 12.6 cm; on each part a piece of red tape has been stuck with black ink handwriting: “1 1/2x; 5x; 2x”g) plain metallic cap with “Leica” logo impressed on top; diameter: 4.8cmh) bar of plain metal with hole on one side, and fixed jaws at the ends; length: 16 cm; width: 4 cm; depth: 3 mm i) plain metal E. Leitz Wetzlar dual cable release; length: 34.7 cm
- Subject
- Nicholas Morant
- photography
- Credit
- Gift of Nicholas Morant, Banff, 2006
- Catalogue Number
- 104.41.1269 a-i
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