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Valuing

Putting values on individual items

As to values of these items, this is difficult to say, if you look at recent sales at Christies (catalogues and results are online) and other auction houses that have specialist sales for cameras of this type, you will see very high prices being got, it as in any auction depends on how many people really want to buy on the day. If you look at specialist collectors shops you will find from time to time some of these cameras, and the more common box, folding and more recent cameras in the wider collection you may find in many places, from your local antique shops, camera dealers and at collectors fairs. Within the UK there are regular, large well attended collectors fairs with many people (large halls full)  making a good income from dealing in collectable cameras. 

Collectable cameras like most antiques have appreciated in value and will outperform many other assets. They have yet however to catch up oil paintings which tend to have a similar appreciation to property. Some people including several of the experts on antique shows on the TV, have said that they are expecting them to appreciate  rapidly in the future.

A prototype camera used to develop the first curtain shutter that developed to the focal plain shutter used on modern 35mm cameras.	A complete press photographers kit, including plates and roll film adaptor to fit the plate camera.	An unusual stereo camera, that would have taken the photos for stereo viewers
Another complete kit	Kit packed for easy carrying,	Large and impressive, and many years ago valued at £1500

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Online links to find more about classic cameras and values etc

Christies auction house www.christies.com drop down sales categories, then collectables then cameras, see also under this their collecting guide on cameras record for an individual collectable camera was for a prototype that fetched £146,750 look also at the exceptional prices page to see just what some cameras do fetch. They say within the collectables guide that the majority of cameras sell through them for between £60 and £1000. Other major auction houses will also have sales.

Tamarkin Oct 24^th camera collection auction 2003 in NY http://www.tamarkin.com/auction/

List of collectors/dealers http://www.ukcamera.com/collect/

Jessops classic site http://www.jessops.com/classic/ 

A page by a collector that has very many links on it http://members.aol.com/dcolucci/

Film for classic cameras http://www.camera-exchange.com/ffc2.htm just in case you want to take photos with them.

Instruction manuals for classic cameras, plus links to repair manuals etc at http://www.manuals4less.com/classics.htm  and another set at  http://www.kyphoto.com/classics/instructionmanuals.html

Open directory page on camera collecting http://dmoz.org/Arts/Photography/Cameras/Collecting/

British photographic collectors club has over 1600 members http://www.lightwave.demon.co.uk/pccgb.htm  also details of magazine back copies an annual event in London with 200+ tables for collectable camera dealers http://www.lightwave.demon.co.uk/pccgb/photfair.htm they also have quarterly postal auctions the latest one having 308 lots in. After the postal auction they put the results on the web site as a trade guide to price

Want more put camera classics into google and get 427,000 links.

A kit, in near mint condition for the spy	A FED outfit (Russian licensed version of a Lieca)	Nikons are the Rolls Royce of cameras. Here we have 3, including the Nikon F arguably the best camera ever made.
This very unusual camera looks like an old box camera but is much older, and houses an ingenious auto plate changing mechanism. Plates are pressed forward and latch down when used. Never seen another like it.		203 cameras plus lots of other goodies make up this collection.

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