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A quartet of members co-ordinated by Gerry Loban highlighted some examples from the Shean collection which will be auctioned by mail in April 2003. Bob Lansdale, editor of the catalogue prefaced the presentations with a synposis of the 48 page catalogue and the work entailed in creating this illustrated listing of the 500 plus lots in the auction. Pictured below are the cut and paste "sanity" check-sheets Bob used to keep track of the images and their corresponding text entries. |
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President Bill Kantymir gave hommage to Walter Shean and his amazing collection before beginning the highlights with this selection of cameras and accessories.
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Bob Wilson highlighted some of the stereo, book and image items in the Auction.
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Stereo Kodak |
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Ross 1901 |
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Chicago 1931 |
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Stereo Lenses |
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Tiny Stanhope |
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Robert Wilson's interest is stereo, books and images making him well qualified to identify and evaluate those items in the Shean auction. There are 173 book lots including 65 instruction books, 13 catalogues (mostly copies), 9 price guides, 3 photo annuals, 25 books on general history/collecting, 8 lots of magazines, and books like Harold Lloyd's 3D Hollywood and the 1899 book on movies, Living Pictures. |
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Gerry Loban showed various reasonably valued cameras from Kodak and Russia in the auction.
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The Hypergon wasn't available until the March meeting (click for Hypergon page), So I brought my Pantoscop extreme wide angle (c1865) based on the same sharply curved double meniscus design and some material courtesy of Stephen Gandy at Camera Quest.
These are just a few of the items shown and described during the evening. You can listen to the full talk on tape. Contact our Curator, Mark Singer for details.
Well that's it for this month. More information on the Shean Auction is available in print (our 48 page illustrated auction catalogue was released March 2003). NOTE:The Shean Auction pages were taken down in December 2003, eight months after the auction ended.
The majority of the images on this page were taken with Nikon 990 digital camera and adjusted in Photoshop. Please note that all images are ©2003 by the Photographic Historical Society of Canada and may be used if the source is mentioned. Hover to see a description of the image. Click the image to see a larger version.
The paper on the Goerz Hypergon is courtesy of Stephen Gandy who lives in California and takes great delight in the wonderful old cameras and lenses. Stephen in turn credits Mike de Punte for the images in his paper.
Bob Carter
