Originally Posted by
Steven Tribe
I bid for this very large Kranz Petzval too! But under 1/4 of the winning bid.
It was described as having heavy separation, but no image of the glass itself!
The auctioneer is notorious for a very restricted images in their catalogues. To be honest, ordinary photographic items on eBay have better series of photographs.
This has a very distressed “glue”. I have not seen anything like it with balsam. In fact, it looks more like a “failed” modern glass UV adhesive.
I keep well away from these UV glues but I understand that xylol will (eventually!) separate the two halves.
Of course, it could be another very large Kranz lens sold at auction.
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