A Camera Similar to the One That Sold for $1.34M is Coming to Auction

A 1957 Leica MP black paint version, the identical yr and mannequin because the one which offered for $1.34 million a few yr in the past, is coming to public sale subsequent month.

The Wetzlar Digicam Auctions are set to be held on October 8 and the group has shared a list of some of the most interesting items, together with a 1957 Leica MP Black Paint estimated at $300,000 and a MDa NASA Duplicate value $80,000.

Noticed by Digital Camera World, the Wetzlar Digicam Auctions has revealed its catalog of things up for bid and in addition supplied a brief preview of chosen highlights coming to its public sale. The 1957 Leica MP Black Paint and MDa NASA Duplicate are two of the standout objects in that preview on account of their supposed worth.

The Leica MP black paint version from 1957 is estimated to be offered for wherever between $250,000 and $300,000. This explicit unit was initially delivered as a silver chrome-plated digital camera, in keeping with the Wetzlar Digicam Auctions. Within the Nineteen Sixties, as a part of a manufacturing facility restore, it was reworked right into a black completed model on a buyer’s request.

Of word, a digital camera of comparable classic offered for a staggering $1.34 million again in November of 2021 on the Leitz Photographica Public sale. Again then, Leitz Photographica stated that not solely was it one of many rarest Leica fashions of all time (solely 412 had been ever produced) however it was additionally in improbable situation.

The 1957 MP black paint being provided on the Wetzlar Digicam Auctions doesn’t look like in nearly as good of situation because the one which offered for $1.34 million, however it’s shut and being valued at practically the identical vary the Leitz Photographica one was set to previous to public sale day (it was initially valued at between $300,000 and $350,000). If Leica digital camera values maintain up, it stands to purpose that this Leica MP will exceed its estimated worth.

Whereas not estimated at practically as excessive a price, one of many different most costly choices on the Wetzlar Public sale this yr is a Leica MDa NASA Replica that’s valued for as a lot as $80,000.

The public sale home says that it’s a “beautifully executed, absolutely useful” reproduction of the well-known digital camera used for the NASA Skylab Experiment S063. This experiment, executed in 1979, was designed to supply information for a number of research: the images of airglow, ozone, aurora, and Comet Kohoutek. Though 5 missions had been deliberate, three went forward, however the Skylab fell out of orbit and disintegrated upon re-entry.

A full listing of all 256 heaps up on the market may be perused in the Wetzlar Camera Auction catalog.

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