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The Beatles
A Kodak Ltd half-plate Specialist technical camera with ebonised-wood body, metal fittings, black bellows, quarter-plate reducing back and focusing screen, and a Taylor-Hobson brass-bound Cooke Portrait Anastigmat Series IIE 10½ inch f/4.5 lens no. 383455 in a pneumatic shutter -- used by Albert Marrion at the Beatles' first official photo. session commissioned by Brian Epstein, at Marrion's studio in Wallasey, December 17th, 1961; accompanied by a black and white portrait photograph from the session and a letter from Herbert Hughes, Marrion's former partner, confirming the provenence (3)
A Kodak Ltd half-plate Specialist technical camera with ebonised-wood body, metal fittings, black bellows, quarter-plate reducing back and focusing screen, and a Taylor-Hobson brass-bound Cooke Portrait Anastigmat Series IIE 10½ inch f/4.5 lens no. 383455 in a pneumatic shutter -- used by Albert Marrion at the Beatles' first official photo. session commissioned by Brian Epstein, at Marrion's studio in Wallasey, December 17th, 1961; accompanied by a black and white portrait photograph from the session and a letter from Herbert Hughes, Marrion's former partner, confirming the provenence (3)