20th Oct, 2017 12:00
Fine Photographica
A Fine R & J Beck 'The Pecrops' Whole Plate Mahogany Field Camera
1875, with Stewart & Co. Melbourne rotary Waterhouse stop brass lens, body, VG, lens, VG, some very light cleaning marks; This camera is numbered 586; an earlier one, number 420, held by The Museum of the History of Science in Oxford, was used by the father of Lawrence of Arabia, and probably by Lawrence himself when at school.
1875, with Stewart & Co. Melbourne rotary Waterhouse stop brass lens, body, VG, lens, VG, some very light cleaning marks; This camera is numbered 586; an earlier one, number 420, held by The Museum of the History of Science in Oxford, was used by the father of Lawrence of Arabia, and probably by Lawrence himself when at school.
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Auction: Fine Photographica, 20th Oct, 2017
