Question about Portrait euryscop

[alex from holland]

I found this euryscop and according to it's serial number it was made around 1899-1900.
But my feeling says that this lens is older?
Or am I wrong?
150430

150428

150429

[goamules]

Hi Alex. Why do you think it's older? They didn't have irises until probably the 1890s, and lenses weren't black lacquered until the 1920s. All you can go by is the serial number, really.

This thread has a picture of one with an iris, 1905 catalog I believe: http://www.largeformatphotography.info/forum/showthread.php?74347-Special-Portrait-Euryscope&p=709619&viewfull=1#post709619

[Jim Fitzgerald]

Alex, I agree with Garrett. I think these lenses are very late 1800 to early 1900's. Regardless of date amazing lenses. Here is a shot of mine. Higher serial number and works just fine on my Century 8A.

[alex from holland]

So my feeling was wrong this time... ��
Thanks for the input.

[CCHarrison]

In 1902, Voigtlaender established a NY base to sell their lenses which were previously represented (American Agents( by Benjamin French's firm out of Boston.

[goamules]

Oh, I didn't look at the larger pictures, and missed the "New York" engraving. That ties it down even more.

[Steven Tribe]

These have the "donated" batch number series from the Braunschweig headquarters so they sometimes give a false indication of when they were made.

[Jim Galli]

So my feeling was wrong this time... ��
Thanks for the input.

Can you clarify just exactly how this works? Is it like a tingling in your leg? Butt pucker? Possibly indigestion related? Trying to understand how one feels an objects age.

[Jac@stafford.net]

Can you clarify just exactly how this works? Is it like a tingling in your leg? Butt pucker? Possibly indigestion related? Trying to understand how one feels an objects age.

It's like hemorrhoids, I imagine. Old is good especially if it is bottled.
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[CCHarrison]

From Voigtlaender's 1905 NY catalogue


150499

[CCHarrison]

and here from the 1903 NY catalogue



150500

[Jim Fitzgerald]

Expensive back in 1903

[Jac@stafford.net]

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Expensive back in 1903

Yes, about $5200.00 in today's US dollar. A most important thing to consider is the relative cost of everyday items. Expenditures Middle-Class 1903, New England. (http://library.buffalo.edu/pan-am/exposition/food/restaurants/profiles.html#middleclass) Middle-Class annual income was about $1500, or 200% the average worker. (Forgive, my office was in a university library for years.:))