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Antique Large Format Camera

Large Format Box Camera, circa 1915
By Eastman Kodak
Located in Hudson, NY
This large format box camera was made by the Folmer & Schwing Division of Eastman Kodak in
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Early 20th Century American Antique Large Format Camera

Materials

Leather, Glass, Wood

Large Kodak Folding No. 3A Camera with Mahogany Inlay c.1903 (FREE SHIPPING)
By Eastman Kodak
Located in San Francisco, CA
ABOUT A large Eastman Kodak No. 3A folding camera with red bellows and Mahogany inlay. The body is
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Early 20th Century Industrial Antique Large Format Camera

Materials

Metal, Brass, Chrome

Large Kodak No. 2C Folding Pocket Camera/Leather Case c.1914 (FREE SHIPPING)
By Eastman Kodak
Located in San Francisco, CA
ABOUT An original large Eastman Kodak No. 2C folding pocket camera with red bellows. The body is
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Early 20th Century Industrial Antique Large Format Camera

Materials

Brass, Chrome

Large Kodak Folding No. 3A Camera with Mahogany Inlay c.1910 (FREE SHIPPING)
By Eastman Kodak
Located in San Francisco, CA
ABOUT A large Eastman Kodak No. 3A folding camera with red bellows and Mahogany inlay. The body is
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Early 20th Century Industrial Antique Large Format Camera

Materials

Metal, Brass, Chrome

Large Antique Kodak No. 3A Model C Folding Camera c.1900-1915 (FREE SHIPPING)
By Eastman Kodak
Located in San Francisco, CA
ABOUT A large Eastman Kodak No. 3A folding camera. The body is wrapped in leather with black metal
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Early 20th Century Industrial Antique Large Format Camera

Materials

Metal, Brass, Chrome

Booby Gannet /// Ornithology Bird Art John James Audubon Florida Keys Seascape
By John James Audubon
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
the gannets and boobies. Collectively called sulids, they are medium-large coastal seabirds that
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1840s Victorian Antique Large Format Camera

Materials

Watercolor, Lithograph

Roseate Spoonbill /// John James Audubon Natural History Ornithology Bird Art
By John James Audubon
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
Philadelphia. Employing a new invention, the camera lucida, the images were reduced in size, rendered in
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1840s Victorian Antique Large Format Camera

Materials

Watercolor, Lithograph

Snowy Heron /// John James Audubon Natural History Ornithology Snowy Egret Bird
By John James Audubon
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
printed and hand-colored by J. T. Bowen in Philadelphia. Employing a new invention, the camera lucida, the
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1840s Victorian Antique Large Format Camera

Materials

Watercolor, Lithograph

Yellow Shanks Snipe (South Carolina) /// Bird Ornithology John James Audubon
By John James Audubon
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
printed and hand-colored by J. T. Bowen in Philadelphia. Employing a new invention, the camera lucida, the
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1840s Victorian Antique Large Format Camera

Materials

Lithograph, Watercolor

French 19th Century B&W Photograph by Adolphe Braun
By Adolphe Braun
Located in Larchmont, NY
industries. Braun began working with a camera in 1853 as a basis for his designs; in the following year he
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1850s Realist Antique Large Format Camera

Materials

Silver Gelatin

Greenshank (St. Augustine, FL) /// Bird Ornithology John James Audubon Seascape
By John James Audubon
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
possible that he confused it with the greater yellow-legs. The common greenshank is a wader in the large
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1840s Victorian Antique Large Format Camera

Materials

Watercolor, Lithograph

Brown Pelican /// Natural History Ornithology Bird Art John James Audubon Sea
By John James Audubon
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
. T. Bowen in Philadelphia. Employing a new invention, the camera lucida, the images were reduced in
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1840s Victorian Antique Large Format Camera

Materials

Watercolor, Lithograph

White-headed Sea Eagle, or Bald Eagle (with Catfish) /// Bird John James Audubon
By John James Audubon
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
larger works. Some compositional changes were made in order to accommodate the smaller format. Like the
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1840s Victorian Antique Large Format Camera

Materials

Lithograph, Watercolor

Famous American Artist John O'Brien Inman (1828-1896) O/C Antique 1864 Portrait
Located in Framingham, MA
formats, and ended up becoming a member of the National Academy of Design in 1865. His studio was then
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1860s Impressionist Antique Large Format Camera

Materials

Oil

Bonaparte’s Flycatching-Warbler (Great Magnolia) /// Ornithology Bird Audubon
By John James Audubon
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
by J. T. Bowen in Philadelphia. Employing a new invention, the camera lucida, the images were reduced
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1840s Victorian Antique Large Format Camera

Materials

Lithograph, Watercolor

Glaucus Gull - Burgomaster /// Ornithology Bird John James Audubon Seascape Sky
By John James Audubon
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
to the larger works. Some compositional changes were made in order to accommodate the smaller format
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1840s Victorian Antique Large Format Camera

Materials

Lithograph, Watercolor

Key-West Dove /// Ornithology Bird John James Audubon Shorebird Flowers Plant
By John James Audubon
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
camera lucida, the images were reduced in size, rendered in intermediate drawings by John James Audubon
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1840s Victorian Antique Large Format Camera

Materials

Watercolor, Lithograph

Red-backed Sandpiper /// Ornithology Bird John James Audubon Beach Ocean Shore
By John James Audubon
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
to the larger works. Some compositional changes were made in order to accommodate the smaller format
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1840s Victorian Antique Large Format Camera

Materials

Lithograph, Watercolor

Common American Gull - Ring-billed Gull /// Ornithology Bird Seascape Beach Sky
By John James Audubon
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
gull or Smithsonian gull is a large gull that breeds in North America, where it is treated by the
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1840s Victorian Antique Large Format Camera

Materials

Lithograph, Watercolor

Long-billed Curlew (City of Charleston) /// Ornithology John James Audubon Bird
By John James Audubon
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
by J. T. Bowen in Philadelphia. Employing a new invention, the camera lucida, the images were reduced
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1840s Victorian Antique Large Format Camera

Materials

Lithograph, Watercolor

Herring or Silvery Gull /// Ornithology Bird John James Audubon Seascape Beach
By John James Audubon
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
group of Racoon Oysters." The American herring gull or Smithsonian gull is a large gull that breeds in
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1840s Victorian Antique Large Format Camera

Materials

Lithograph, Watercolor

Ivory Gull /// Ornithology Bird Audubon Seascape Beach Ocean Shorebird Shell
By John James Audubon
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
-colored by J. T. Bowen in Philadelphia. Employing a new invention, the camera lucida, the images were
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1840s Victorian Antique Large Format Camera

Materials

Lithograph, Watercolor

Wilson’s Petrel - Mother Carey’s Chicken /// Ornithology Bird Seascape Audubon
By John James Audubon
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
hand-colored by J. T. Bowen in Philadelphia. Employing a new invention, the camera lucida, the images
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1840s Victorian Antique Large Format Camera

Materials

Lithograph, Watercolor

Head of a Classical Poet (Socrates?)
By Pier Francesco Mola
Located in New York, NY
architect to the Camera Apostolica, the papal treasury. Other than two extended trips outside the city, one
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17th Century Baroque Antique Large Format Camera

Materials

Canvas, Oil

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David Hockney, A Bigger Book
By David Hockney
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Hardcover, 50 x 70 cm (19.6 x 27.5 in.), 498 pages, 13 fold-outs, with an adjustable bookstand designed by Marc Newson, plus an illustrated 680-page chronology book A Bigger Book,...
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21st Century and Contemporary European Antique Large Format Camera

Materials

Paper

Antique David Hockney, A Bigger Book
David Hockney, A Bigger Book
H 27.5 in W 19.6 in D 4 in
Art Deco Eastman Kodak Jiffy Kodak Six-20 Strut Folding Camera Rochester NY 30's
By Eastman Kodak
Located in High Wycombe, GB
An Art Deco Eastman Kodak Jiffy Kodak Six-20 Folding Rollfilm Camera Styled by Walter Dorwin Teague Made in Rochester NY, USA between 1933 & 1937 Takes 620 roll film Classificatio...
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Early 20th Century American Art Deco Antique Large Format Camera

Materials

Chrome

Blaise Bontems Musical Automaton Singing birds and Clock under glass dome
Located in Leuven , BE
This 19th-century French automaton from the late 1800s showcases a delightful ensemble of features: three vibrant animated birds, a cascading waterfall, a tree surrounded by rocky ou...
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19th Century French Antique Large Format Camera

Materials

Metal

Guinco 1923 Large Table Desk Semi Automatic lighter In Solid Polished Brass
Located in Miami, FL
Desk table lighter designed by Samuel E. Ghinn. This is a superb and very rare table desk semi automatic petrol lighter, created in Cincinnati Ohio by Samuel E. Ghinn, back in 1923....
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1920s American Art Deco Antique Large Format Camera

Materials

Brass, Steel

Art Nouveau French Black , wooden Telephone Bronze
By French Foundry Pierret-Depaix et Cie
Located in Valladolid, ES
Amazing Art Nouveau black and wooden French Telephone, by AOIP. At the end of the 19th century, sixty-four workers from the Paris Chamber of Precision Instrument Workers came toget...
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1920s French Art Nouveau Antique Large Format Camera

Materials

Bronze, Wire

Art Nouveau French Black , wooden Telephone Bronze
Art Nouveau French Black , wooden Telephone Bronze
No Reserve
H 8.67 in W 9.85 in D 8.67 in
Kodak No 2 Hawkette Marbled Bakelite 120 Roll Film Strut Folding Camera
By Eastman Kodak
Located in High Wycombe, GB
Kodak No 2 Hawkette Marbled Bakelite 120 Roll Film Strut Folding Camera With Meniscus Lens & Rotary Shutter Made in the UK 1930's Constructed from brown bakelite moulded components ...
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Early 20th Century British Art Deco Antique Large Format Camera

Materials

Metal

Asprey & Co. London Guilloche Wafer Petrol Lighter In Solid .925 Sterling Silver
By Asprey & Garrard Limited
Located in Miami, FL
Wafer petrol pocket lighter designed by Asprey & Company. Beautiful wafer lighter, created in London England by the luxury house of Asprey & Company Limited, back in the 1963. Craft...
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1960s English Mid-Century Modern Antique Large Format Camera

Materials

Silver, Sterling Silver

Thorens "Excelda" Camera Phone Phonograph Player circa 1930s Very Rare
By Thorens
Located in Oakland, CA
This is an authentic Excelda portable gramophone, the portable phonograph of the 1930's that resembled the pocket cameras of that time (usually referred to as a “Cameraphone”). It wa...
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1930s Swiss Art Deco Antique Large Format Camera

Materials

Metal

Luggage Trunk Lighter, 1980s Japan
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Cool vintage table lighter in the shape of a luggage trunk with straps and bag tags. Made completely of metal with a hollow body. Light patina giving this piece a classic silver colo...
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1980s Japanese Antique Large Format Camera

Materials

Metal

Luggage Trunk Lighter, 1980s Japan
Luggage Trunk Lighter, 1980s Japan
H 3 in W 3.5 in D 1.38 in
Walther PPK Table Lighter, 1980s Japan
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Cool vintage table lighter in the shape of a Walther PPK. Made completely of metal with a hollow body. Beautiful burnished silver color with intricate details. Cool tobacco accessory...
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1980s Japanese Antique Large Format Camera

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Metal

Walther PPK Table Lighter, 1980s Japan
Walther PPK Table Lighter, 1980s Japan
H 4.75 in W 1.25 in D 5.5 in
Art Deco Canadian Kodak Jiffy Vest Pocket Kodak Model B 127 Film Bellow Camera
Located in High Wycombe, GB
Art Deco Canadian Kodak Vest Pocket Kodak Model B 127 Film Folding Bellow Camera Made in Toronto, Ontario Canada 1925-34 Model ref 22115 This was a quite different camera; a primit...
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Early 20th Century Canadian Art Deco Antique Large Format Camera

Materials

Metal

German modern metal and plastic table lighter T2 by Dieter Rams for Braun, 1970s
By Dieter Rams, Braun
Located in MIlano, IT
German modern metal and plastic table lighter T2 by Dieter Rams for Braun, 1970s Cylindrical table lighter mod. T2 in knurled metal. The flame supply point is located on one side of ...
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1970s German Modern Antique Large Format Camera

Materials

Metal

Ronson USA 1929 Art Deco RonDeLight Table Lighter In Black Lacquer And Steel
By Ronson Art Metal Works, Louis Vincent Aronson
Located in Miami, FL
A ball table lighter designed by Ronson. Very beautiful RonDeLight Junior desk lighter, created in New Jersey United States by The Ronson Co. during the art deco period, back in the...
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1920s American Art Deco Antique Large Format Camera

Materials

Steel

Grenade Lighter, 1980s Japan
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Unique vintage table lighter in the shape of a grenade. Made in Japan with "Comoy's of London" tag on the felted base. Cool tobacco accessory and conversation piece. Working lighter....
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1980s Japanese Antique Large Format Camera

Materials

Metal

Grenade Lighter, 1980s Japan
Grenade Lighter, 1980s Japan
H 4.25 in W 2.88 in D 2.88 in
Polaire Paris 1938 Art Deco Table Desk Petrol Lighter-Clock In Chromed Steel
By Polaris
Located in Miami, FL
A desk lighter clock designed by Polaire Paris. A beautiful desk lighter-clock, created in Paris France by the Alphonse Brun company know as Polaire Paris, back in the 1938. This pi...
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1930s French Art Deco Antique Large Format Camera

Materials

Steel, Chrome

Vintage Faceted Lucite Table Lighter
Located in Brooklyn, NY
A Mid-Century Modern lucite table lighter with faceted corners and decorative elements, and new chrome lighter mechanism insert. In good vintage condition with light wear consiste...
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Mid-20th Century Mid-Century Modern Antique Large Format Camera

Materials

Lucite

Vintage Faceted Lucite Table Lighter
Vintage Faceted Lucite Table Lighter
H 5 in W 3.25 in D 3.25 in

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Vintage Large Format Photographic Lens As Sculpture Early 20th Rare. ON SALE.
By Boyer of Paris
Located in Dallas, TX
. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Submitted for your approval is this circa early 20th century boyer Paris Saphir 300MM Large Format Camera
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Early 20th Century French Archaistic Antique Large Format Camera

Large Antique Kodak No. 3A Folding Camera, circa 1903-1912
By Eastman Kodak
Located in San Francisco, CA
About This is an original large Eastman Kodak No. 3A folding camera with red bellows. The body
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Early 20th Century Industrial Antique Large Format Camera

Materials

Metal, Brass, Chrome

Large Antique Kodak Folding No. 3A Camera with Original Leather Case c.1902-1912
By Eastman Kodak
Located in San Francisco, CA
ABOUT A large Eastman Kodak No. 3A folding camera with red bellows and original leather case
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Early 20th Century Industrial Antique Large Format Camera

Materials

Metal, Brass, Chrome

Brown-headed Nuthatch
By John James Audubon
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
larger works. Some compositional changes were made in order to accommodate the smaller format. Like the
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1840s Victorian Antique Large Format Camera

Materials

Watercolor, Lithograph

Duskey Duck
By John James Audubon
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
to the larger works. Some compositional changes were made in order to accommodate the smaller format
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1840s Victorian Antique Large Format Camera

Materials

Watercolor, Lithograph

Common Mocking Bird
By John James Audubon
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
in Philadelphia. Employing a new invention, the camera lucida, the images were reduced in size
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1840s Victorian Antique Large Format Camera

Materials

Watercolor, Lithograph

Common American Partridge
By John James Audubon
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
larger works. Some compositional changes were made in order to accommodate the smaller format. Like the
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1840s Victorian Antique Large Format Camera

Materials

Watercolor, Lithograph

Cayenne Tern
By John James Audubon
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
to the larger works. Some compositional changes were made in order to accommodate the smaller format
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1840s Victorian Antique Large Format Camera

Materials

Watercolor, Lithograph

Pipiry Flycatcher
By John James Audubon
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
. T. Bowen in Philadelphia. Employing a new invention, the camera lucida, the images were reduced in
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1840s Victorian Antique Large Format Camera

Materials

Watercolor, Lithograph

Ruddy Duck
By John James Audubon
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
larger works. Some compositional changes were made in order to accommodate the smaller format. Like the
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1840s Victorian Antique Large Format Camera

Materials

Watercolor, Lithograph

Canada Goose
By John James Audubon
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
was printed and hand-colored by J. T. Bowen in Philadelphia. Employing a new invention, the camera
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1840s Victorian Antique Large Format Camera

Materials

Watercolor, Lithograph

Wood Ibis
By John James Audubon
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
. T. Bowen in Philadelphia. Employing a new invention, the camera lucida, the images were reduced in
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1840s Victorian Antique Large Format Camera

Materials

Watercolor, Lithograph

The Birds of America, First Royal Octavo Edition (Vol. I)
By John James Audubon
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
printed and hand-colored by J. T. Bowen in Philadelphia. Employing a new invention, the camera lucida, the
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1840s Naturalistic Antique Large Format Camera

Materials

Gold Leaf

Map of Appomattox Court House, Antique Map from Surveys, 1867
Located in Colorado Springs, CO
Lithographing, Engraving & Printing Co. Lithographed by Julius Bien. This is a scarce large format plan of the
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1860s American Antique Large Format Camera

Materials

Paper

Rochester Optical Co. Large Format Wood Camera Tripod and Case
Located in Wallkill, NY
Antique 5 x 7 large format camera with a tripod was made by the Rochester Optical Co. in Rochester
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1890s American Victorian Antique Large Format Camera

Materials

Brass

Scovill MFD Co Large Format Wood Camera with Tripod and Case
Located in Wallkill, NY
Manufactured by Scovill Mfg Co of Waterbury New York, lens is marked Waterbury lens number 124375 1 1/2 In. Original wood caring case. A Great piece of history that is 125+ years old...
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1890s American Victorian Antique Large Format Camera

Materials

Brass

Ansel Adams Signed Original Gelatin Silver Print, "Bridalveil Fall, Yosemite"
By Ansel Adams
Located in Phoenix, AZ
lover of large-format cameras which were considered trouble because of their sizes, weights, setup time
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Early 20th Century American Antique Large Format Camera

Large Antique Canadian Kodak Folding No. 3A Camera c.1913
By Eastman Kodak
Located in San Francisco, CA
ABOUT A large Eastman Kodak No. 3A, Model C folding camera wrapped in leather with chrome and
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Early 20th Century Industrial Antique Large Format Camera

Materials

Metal, Brass, Chrome

Large Antique Kodak Folding No. 3A Camera with Original Leather Case c.1910
By Eastman Kodak
Located in San Francisco, CA
ABOUT A large Eastman Kodak No. 3A folding camera with red bellows and original leather case
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Early 20th Century Industrial Antique Large Format Camera

Materials

Chrome, Metal, Brass

Photography, Dorothy Graves, Ziegfeld Follies Dancer
By Alfred Cheney Johnston
Located in Rochester, NY
, Johnston often employed a large "Century"-brand view camera that produced 11x14-inch glass-plate
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Early 20th Century American Art Deco Antique Large Format Camera

No. 365 Yellow Avens
By Edwin Hale Lincoln
Located in Fairlawn, OH
directly from his large-format negatives. To support himself and his family, Lincoln sold his finished
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1910s American Realist Antique Large Format Camera

Materials

Silver Gelatin

No. 372 Low Sweet Blueberry
By Edwin Hale Lincoln
Located in Fairlawn, OH
directly from his large-format negatives. To support himself and his family, Lincoln sold his finished
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1910s American Realist Antique Large Format Camera

Materials

Platinum

Common Buzzard
By John James Audubon
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
in Philadelphia. Employing a new invention, the camera lucida, the images were reduced in size
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1840s Victorian Antique Large Format Camera

Materials

Watercolor, Lithograph

Long-tailed Duck
By John James Audubon
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
larger works. Some compositional changes were made in order to accommodate the smaller format. Like the
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1840s Victorian Antique Large Format Camera

Materials

Watercolor, Lithograph

Iceland or Gyr Falcon
By John James Audubon
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
to the larger works. Some compositional changes were made in order to accommodate the smaller format
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1840s Victorian Antique Large Format Camera

Materials

Watercolor, Lithograph

Swainson's Swamp Warbler (Orange Colored Azalea)
By John James Audubon
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
hand-colored by J. T. Bowen in Philadelphia. Employing a new invention, the camera lucida, the images
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1840s Victorian Antique Large Format Camera

Materials

Watercolor, Lithograph

Whooping Crane
By John James Audubon
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
, the camera lucida, the images were reduced in size, rendered in intermediate drawings by John James
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1840s Victorian Antique Large Format Camera

Materials

Watercolor, Lithograph

Pectoral Sandpiper /// Ornithology Bird John James Audubon Ocean Beach Shore Art
By John James Audubon
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
larger works. Some compositional changes were made in order to accommodate the smaller format. Like the
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1840s Victorian Antique Large Format Camera

Materials

Lithograph, Watercolor

Photographic Portrait-Confederate General Benjamin F. Cheatham by Mathew Brady
Located in Gallatin, TN
Photograph is laid on larger card stock The bottom of card is printed ” Entered according to Act of Congress
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19th Century Antique Large Format Camera

Materials

Photographic Paper

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Antique Large Format Camera For Sale on 1stDibs

Find the exact antique large format camera you’re shopping for in the variety available on 1stDibs. You’re likely to find the perfect antique large format camera among the distinctive items we have available, which includes versions made as long ago as the 18th Century as well as those made as recently as the 20th Century. When looking for the right antique large format camera for your space, you can search on 1stDibs by color — popular works were created in bold and neutral palettes with elements of gray, beige, black and gold. There have been many interesting antique large format camera examples over the years, but those made by John James Audubon, Edwin Hale Lincoln and Pier Francesco Mola are often thought to be among the most thought-provoking. These artworks were handmade with extraordinary care, with artists most often working in paint, lithograph and watercolor.

How Much is a Antique Large Format Camera?

The price for an antique large format camera in our collection starts at $200 and tops out at $45,000 with the average selling for $1,000.