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Photography, Science & Travel on 04/12/2025

Photography, Science & Travel

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DATE: 04/12/2025

This diverse and engaging sale brings together fine examples of 20th-century photography equipment, scientific instruments and travel-related artefacts, offering collectors a broad range of technical, historical and exploratory interest.

Photography highlights include a well-equipped Leica M3 rangefinder outfit with lenses and accessories housed in an original Benser case, alongside a 1958 Leitz Summaron wide-angle lens with M3 goggles, a period Leica combination travel case, and notable classic cameras such as the Rolleiflex 2.8F TLR and Hasselblad 500C with Zeiss optics.

Scientific and optical pieces are led by a striking pair of mid-20th-century Russian Helios PNB-2 military observation binoculars, complete with stowage case, accessories and tripod, and a 19th-century R&J Beck brass binocular microscope in its fitted case with lenses.

The travel and exploration section is distinguished by a rare Franz Clouth 19th-century copper and brass diving helmet, featured in Pardoe’s reference work on diving apparatus, and a historically resonant table fork from Captain Scott’s British National Antarctic Expedition relief ship SY Morning, preserved in its tooled leather case.

Also included is a large archive of over 500 real photographic postcards by J.T. Ross of Whitby, capturing daily life and landscapes across North Yorkshire and accompanied by reference volumes on the photographer’s work. Completing the offering is an original 1930s LMS Railway lithographic poster after Claude Henry Buckle, a fine example of British railway art.

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TIME: 11: 00 AM

Closing Date for Entries: Thursday, 6 November

VENUE: Online & at David Duggleby, Scarborough, YO11 1XN

AUCTION VIEWING:
Tuesday 2nd December 9am - 4:30pm
Wednesday 3rd December 9am - 4:30pm
Thursday 4th December from 9am


  • Buyer's premium 25% plus VAT
  • In-house post & packing available - see individual lots for prices
  • Items to be paid for by Thursday, 11 December and collected by Thursday, 11 December
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