Some Soft Focus Lens Sales Information

[Amedeus]

Pinkham & Smith Visual Quality series IV no 4, $800 BIN. SN 2660. Studio shutter no. 5, decent sized scratch on the back element and a lot of free dust. 153111689491. I'm not the buyer.

I know the buyer and he actually paid $450 ... even with the scratch, major steal.

Cheers,

[seven]

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Cooke IIE 15"/4.5 (332733341688) 2484EUR (2900USD)

[Amedeus]

Ebay makes it currently very difficult to retrieve finished auction information through search ... hit and miss nowadays ...

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Cooke IIE 15"/4.5 (332733341688) 2484EUR (2900USD)

[pjd]

Does anyone know more about what this lens was, 253816534003, 16" B&L portrait lens - f4, looks like a factory mount in a Wollensak studio shutter (no. 5?). Sold for $501.00 (auction, not BIN), damaged aperture blades, maybe one blade missing. I'm not actually sure if it was a soft focus lens, but this thread seems the right place to ask. I didn't buy it, before anyone asks.

[Mark Sawyer]

Looks like a B&L Sigmar, a fairly fast triplet. It was advertised as somewhere between soft and "wiry sharp".

[pjd]

Looks like a B&L Sigmar, a fairly fast triplet. It was advertised as somewhere between soft and "wiry sharp".

Thanks Mark, a quick search for Sigmar lenses does show a striking similarity.

[jp]

Here's my Sigmar for comparison. The major difference is that the ebay one does not say Sigmar or it is obscured. Maybe it says what it is. The knurling around the front metal is similar and that varies among similar vintage B&L lenses. The inner front ring is also stepped in in the ebay picture at an angle, but mine is atleast 85 degree, making it a much thinner ring thickness than the ebay auction. Look for the old catalogs online; forgot where to find them.



If it is a triplet of some sort, it will be a fun lens.

[Amedeus]

Cooke IIA, 12.5", f3.5, very early model with push/pull SF adjustment for $2,600 (BIN, 332777264603)


Cheers,

[Amedeus]

Wollensak Verito 9" for $395 (BIN, 382225487580)

Pinkham & Smith 15" f4.5 Semi Achromatic Doublet Soft Focus, serial #1382, Series III for $5,500 (CA sales tax ... ) This is a Burke&James rehoused P&S ... glass in great condition. (173585987411)

Dallmeyer 3A for $2,495 (BIN, 192696331977)

Nicola Perscheid, 360mm lens for $2,800 (BIN, 202244394173)

Cooke, Series VI, knuckler, 13" f5.6 for $1,830 (38256712324)

Cooke, Series II, 10.5", f4.5, no knuckler for $1,014 (223130991471)

Cooke, Series VI, 19" f5.6, no knuckler for $2,000 (BIN, 292725659925)

Kodak Portrait lens, 305 in Ilex #5 shutter for $1,014 (BIN, 12331744261)

Cheers,

[Steven Tribe]

Eddie had a T,T&H RV meniscus 12.5" F11. He didn't say it was the RV (rapid view).
In an auction it made 700 USD and this shows how rare the slightly faster RVPs must be!

LATER:

This sale has apparently lead to a large quantity of similar listings - which I will post about when the time comes!

He also sold a unique Thomas Slater lens as another item. I know of no Slater lens other than the achromat lens that he made for the enormous refracting telescope erected in Wandsworth common - just south of the Thames in London.
Interested can see a popular description here.

http://www.craig-telescope.co.uk/lens.html

This was in the 1850's. In the 1950's, when I used to attempt cross country running here, there was nothing left. The lens appears to have had an incorrect profile on one surface. A soft lens perhaps?