A couple of lots in the forthcoming Flints Auction on 29 April caught BPH's eye. First up is a Thornton-Pickard Type C aerial camera c.1915. The camera is part of a whole outfit used by the Royal Flying Corps. It is estimated at £4000-6000. Alongside this is a TP Hythe Type III camera gun, and a collection of documents relating to 2/Lt. Frederick Charles Victor Laws a significant figure in the early development of aerial photography and aircraft-mounted cameras.
Elsewhere is a glass rummer engraved to H H Leithead form H H Bright, R Miller and F B Burdon, Hartlepool 1857. Opposite is an engraving of a collapible wet-plate camera. It is estimated at £100-200. The lot was previously offered in a ceramic auction in 2024. Leithead was a member of the Liverpool Photographic Society in 1858.
A Kodak Wide Angle Camera, c1940, with Carl Zeiss Jena Protar f/18 85mm lens, black, serial no. 307509, body, G, lens, VG, some light internal haze, complete with three DDS, is of the type used by Bill Brandt for his distorted nudes. A copy of his Bill Brandt: Nudes 1945-1980, is also included. Estimate £700-1000.
Fine Photographica
Wednesday 29th of April 2026 at 10:00 BST Lots: 1 to 543
See: https://www.flintsauctions.com/auction/details/fcam18-fine-photographica/?au=107
