News of a record price for a camera at auction from both the Associated Press and the Herald Sun. Both of the articles are short, so I will post each in their entirety. The $1.89 million is a record for a camera at auction, and this rare Leica went to an Asian collector.
The Herald Sun reports on the sale
VIENNA (AP) -- An Austrian auction house says an 88-year-old Leica camera has sold for a record euro1.3 million ($1.9 million).
WestLicht says the rare camera is part of a small series dating back to 1923 and was valued at up to euro450,000 ($643,640).
It says the camera, which had a starting price of euro200,000 ($286,000), went to a private Asian collector after a nail biting, 20-minute bidding process.
WestLicht claims Saturday's auction makes the Leica the most expensive camera ever sold.
A CAMERA from 1923 has been sold at auction for a world record 1.32 million euros ($1.89 million).
The Leica camera's final price shattered pre-sale estimates.
The purchaser was a private collector from Asia who wants to remain anonymous, said Vienna's WestLicht gallery, which organised the auction.
The camera was one of about 25 prototypes made in 1923, two years before the celebrated German brand went into commercial production. It had been valued ahead of the auction at about one quarter of what it eventually went for.
The previous world record was set last year when a collector paid 732,000 euros for a daguerreotype, the world's first commercially produced camera, which bore the rare signature of its French inventor.
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