Leica has introduced the return of the Leitz Photographica Public sale, the world’s largest public sale of historic cameras that can be held for the fortieth time and rejoice its twentieth anniversary, with a particular piece this 12 months — the Leica 0-Collection No. 105, produced in 1923.
Leitz Photographica Public sale is famend for providing lovely and uncommon images gear items, usually extremely sought-after by collectors. The ultimate bids can command excessive costs, just like the uncommon 1957 Leica MP Black Paint version digicam which was offered for €1,200,000 (about $1,344,366) within the thirty ninth public sale.
A Uncommon and Historic Leica
This 12 months the public sale can be held on June 11 on the Leitz Park, the worldwide Leica headquarters in Wetzlar, Germany. The spotlight of this 12 months’s public sale is the 1923 Leica 0-Collection No. 105.
This explicit digicam is exclusive as a result of it comes from a batch of roughly 20 0-Collection prototypes which have been manufactured earlier than the Leitz Digital camera — or, Leica for brief — went into collection manufacturing within the mid-Twenties and made the 35mm format the brand new normal for skilled photographers. Out of the 20 examples, solely round a dozen are estimated to nonetheless be in existence as we speak.
The 0-Collection No. 105 is just not solely uncommon but it surely was additionally one of many private cameras of Oskar Barnack, the inventor of 35mm images and whose identify might be discovered on the viewfinder of the digicam. In accordance with Leica, he used No. 105 to seize his household life, gaining technical insights that helped additional the event of the digicam and its succeeding fashions.
Bearing in mind the digicam’s historic significance and its well-known earlier proprietor, the public sale home estimates value of €2,000,000 ($2,194,640) to €3,000,000 ($3,291,960) with a beginning bid of €1,000,000 euros ($1,097,320), going up towards one other 0-Collection mannequin offered in 2018 for record-breaking €2,400,000 ($2,633,568).
Customized Gold-Layered Set For Charitable Causes
The public sale home may even put up on the market a charity lot with proceeds donated to charities in Austria and, for the primary time, Germany. Celebrating this 12 months’s Leitz Photographica Public sale anniversary, a novel digicam set can be up for public sale — the analog Leica MP with the serial quantity 5630769 and the Leica Elmar-M 1:2.8/50 with the serial quantity 3739015.
Each are distinctive items from the cooperation between Leica Digital camera AG and Leitz Photographica Public sale, and the proceeds from these gross sales can be donated. The digicam physique has ornamental metallic exterior elements coated with a layer of actual gold. This mannequin’s prime plate has an extra particular function because it doesn’t have any of the standard engravings. As an alternative, the digicam’s serial quantity might be discovered discreetly engraved on the underside of the winding lever.
The black Leica Elmar-M 1:2.8/5 lens has gold-colored engravings to match the digicam, as a substitute of the standard engravings specified by white paint.
Full particulars in regards to the upcoming public sale and the flexibility to position advance bids might be discovered on the Leitz Public sale web site.
